Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator powered by pee

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Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator powered by pee

People pee a lot, and four African teenage girls have actually figured out a way to make pee useful . That’s right — even your pee. Doesn’t that make you want to rush out and drink a whole lot of beer right now and see how much electricity you can make? Oh, except we are pretty sure these girls were not drinking beer when they made this gadget, which was was presented this week in Lagos, Nigeria, at the fourth annual Maker Faire Africa, because it’s kind of complicated. And they are too young. According to The Next Web’s Emil Protalinski, the urine-powered generator — which can turn one liter of urine into six hours of electricity — works like this. 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 hyd...

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@mobile_movement » 06 Dec '12, 4am
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RT @TeresaRobeson: Gross but cool! MT @AttainSustain: Urine-powered generator can turn 1L of urine into 6 hours of electricity. [link] Via @grist
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@AttainSustain » 18 Nov '12, 8pm
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See? Pee! [link]
@DrCleverBoy » 17 Nov '12, 1am
Generador electrico usando orina como combustible [link]
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@Stevtro » 15 Nov '12, 2am
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@CrownMe_ImCandy » 15 Nov '12, 12am
These girls in Africa made a generator that runs on pee idk how to feel about that. Yay Africa ? [link]
@setra » 14 Nov '12, 11pm
People pee a lot, and four African teenage girls have actually figured out a way to make pee useful. [link]
@femmekatz » 14 Nov '12, 9pm
RT @greenforall: 1 liter of pee = 6 hrs of power.Teenage girls in Nigeria invent urine-powered generator: [link]
@greenforall » 14 Nov '12, 9pm
1 liter of pee = 6 hrs of power.Teenage girls in Nigeria invent urine-powered generator: [link]
@CreativeInv » 14 Nov '12, 9pm
Four teenage girls in Africa have invented an electric generator that runs on urine: [link]
@guide2healthRS » 14 Nov '12, 7pm
Now that's inventive when thinking about SUSTAINABILITY and working for a cleaner Planet! [link]
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@emplois_engages » 14 Nov '12, 2pm
Cette génératrice africaine produit de l'électricité à partir d'un nouveau carburant... notre pipi. [link]
@emerbeamer » 14 Nov '12, 11am
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Necessity and the daughters of invention: [link] Alternative energy indeed! Congratulations to far seeing youth!
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RT @carolinavr_D22: Amazing creative teenagers! The generator that runs on pee: [link] -- Rob Hopkins @robintransition
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Amazing creative teenagers! The generator that runs on pee: [link] -- Rob Hopkins @robintransition
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