Producing energy from urine. It will perhaps turn up their noses for the fussy eaters, but the generator presented by 4 very young African teenagers at the fourth Maker Faire Africa, a fair reserved for small inventors, which took place in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, has the great quality of using this. which is commonly discarded as waste, our pee, in 6 hours of electrical power.
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Producing energy from urine. It may make the fussy eaters turn up their noses, but the generator presented by 4 very young African teenagers fourth Maker Faire Africa, a fair reserved for small inventors, which took place in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, has the great quality of using what is commonly discarded as waste, our pee, in 6 hours of feedingelectricity.
Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin and Bello Eniola, who are between 14 and 15 years old, have created a generator that converts the hydrogen contained in urine into energy, by passing the fluid into an electrolytic cell that separates the chemical element, which is then “refined” through a purification filter containing liquid borax, with which the humidity is removed from the gas. Finally, the purified gas is pushed into the generator.
This ecological system, simple and fully functional, looks very promising. However, there are still many aspects to improve in terms of safety. The prototype, in fact, as the inventors themselves admit, still has a signifier risk of explosion. Do not neglect even the hygiene, since the generator could currently become a real one arma batteriologica without a more sophisticated mechanism capable of averting these possible dangers.
In short, it needs to be improved. But the girls should still be credited with having reused an interesting alternative energy source that is usually wasted by flushing the toilet. Especially considering that i almost 7 billion inhabitants of the Earth produce 10 billion liters of pee every day, an amount sufficient to fill 4000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Liquid that will soon provide low-cost hydrogen e fuel for fuel cells. A valuable contribution to our unresolved energy problems.
Roberta Ragni
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