Young African girls invent urine powered generators

[Beedad]

Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Africa who invented a urine-powered generator.

How's this for an innovative startup: four African girls — the eldest of which is just fifteen years old — have worked together to invent a generator that's powered by urine. The group presented their creation at this year's Maker Faire Africa, and it's so freaking brilliant it makes me want travel back in time and punch 15-year-old me right in the solar plexus.

The Next Web lays out how it works:

Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which cracks the urea into nitrogen, water, and 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.

1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.
Here's hoping these girls can get the funding they need to take this idea to new heights. Even if they don't, we've got a feeling they're going places.
- Robert T. Gonzalez

 

[Sierra Mist]

Black Girls Rock.

 

[Cat piss martini]

the power of piss...

 

[kevm3]

nice to hear a positive story

 

[#1 pick]

 

[DuncanWebayama]

they look like jodie breeze

 

[Hurricane Starang]

The real question here is which one would yall pipe?

 

[Singh]

 

[YBE]

#BlackExcellence

 

[ThugLife]

Black Excellence, , , and at the same damn time

 

[Chief]

Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Africa who invented a urine-powered generator.

This is great

Hopefully the white man does not steal their invention

 

[Dark Knyght]

They need to patent this shyt ASAP. Matter of fact. *books flight to Africa*

 

[TJ Hend]

African girls’ pee-powered generator raises questions - FutureTech on NBCNews.com

 

[Metta World Movement]

nikkas in here actin' like they invented a time machine or some shyt

Talkin' about "don't let the white man steal it" when he most likely already made it (either him or some Asian/Indian breh)

I ain't hatin'....God knows I don't know the full tech behind the generator my damn self....but let's not blow this shyt outta proportion

 

[andre patton]

nikkas in here actin' like they invented a time machine or some shyt

Talkin' about "don't let the white man steal it" when he most likely already made it (either him or some Asian/Indian breh)

I ain't hatin'....God knows I don't know the full tech behind the generator my damn self....but let's not blow this shyt outta proportion

you're correct. its cool and all...but its not useful at the moment.


say you could stick some old AA batteries in the microwave for 5 minutes and they would come out fully recharged. sounds great right? til you realize the microwave is plugged into the wall. and it took more energy to power the microwave to recharge the batteries that you're actually getting out of the batteries.

their machine takes more energy to turn the urine into energy than it provides. waste of time. and the bytch on the left look like eddy curry.