{"id":43985,"date":"2012-11-10T13:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=43985"},"modified":"2012-11-10T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T05:49:06","slug":"urine-powered-generator-from-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/urine-powered-generator-from-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Urine Powered Generator from Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to these 14 and 15 years old kids in Nigeria, Africa. They have come up with a simple system to use urine as a fuel to power generator. Their work was showcased in <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaireafrica.com\/2012\/11\/06\/a-urine-powered-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maker Faire Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/urine-generator.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43986\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/urine-powered-generator-from-africa\/urine-generator\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/urine-generator.jpg?fit=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"urine-generator\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/urine-generator.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/urine-generator.jpg?fit=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43986\" title=\"urine-generator\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/urine-generator.jpg?resize=600%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/urine-generator.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/urine-generator.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15). I have seen some comments saying that separating the hydrogen from urine using Electrolytic cell requires a lot of energy.I don&#8217;t think the system is perfect yet.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, if it is naturally for a person to &#8220;remove&#8221; urine in the body as waste. Why not take this &#8220;waste&#8221; and recycle them back to something useful. I believe they have done their calculation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the end results is that they can actually get 6 hours of electricity using 1 liter of urine. It is a great deal if you are in a country where electricity don&#8217;t come by flipping a switch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The system works like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.<\/li>\n<li>The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.<\/li>\n<li>The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.<\/li>\n<li>This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaireafrica.com\/2012\/11\/06\/a-urine-powered-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read the Article<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>[ad#boxlist]<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaireafrica.com\/2012\/11\/06\/a-urine-powered-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to these 14 and 15 years old kids in Nigeria, Africa. 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