- Location
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Occupation
- Retired Electrical Contractor
I came across this article about teenage girls in Africa who unveiled a urine powered generator. Has any one heard of this before- it seems too good to be true esp. for developing nations. What do you think? The quoted part came from here
Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel.
So how exactly does the urine-powered generator work?
- 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.