A Urine Powered Generator : Maker Faire Africa
Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine powered generator, created by four girls. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15).
1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.
The system works like this:
* Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
* The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
* The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
* This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
It seems that the generator powers the urine cell - which in turn powers the generator and a load.
A closer look at the system and you can see wires going from the generator to the urine cell:
http://makerfaireafrica.com/wp-conte...1/IMG_4498.jpg
I guess this may explain why it works.
Is Urine the Fuel of the Future? - YouTube
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Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine powered generator, created by four girls. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15).
1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.
The system works like this:
* Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
* The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.
* The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
* This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
It seems that the generator powers the urine cell - which in turn powers the generator and a load.
A closer look at the system and you can see wires going from the generator to the urine cell:
http://makerfaireafrica.com/wp-conte...1/IMG_4498.jpg
I guess this may explain why it works.
Is Urine the Fuel of the Future? - YouTube
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