Pee powers African innovation

[Don1]

Urine-powered generator unveiled at international exhibition
By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News |

Three of the four inventors of the urine-powered generator (Eric Hersman)
Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel.

The generator was unveiled at last week's Maker Faire in Lagos, Nigeria, by the four teens Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, and Faleke Oluwatoyin, all age 14, and Bello Eniola, 15.

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.

And as for delivering the fuel itself? Well, we'll leave that up to the consumer.
The Maker Faire is a popular event across the African continent, drawing thousands of participants who travel to Lagos to show their inventions and other practical creations.

As the Next Web describes it, the Maker Faire is intended to highlight creations "that solve immediate challenges and problems, and then works to support and propagate them. Put another way, this isn't just a bunch of rich people talking about how their apps are going to change the world."


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[Mosiah]

Put another way, this isn't just a bunch of rich people talking about how their apps are going to change the world."

[Islandman]

You might remember I mentioned the Maker movement to you a few months ago? Is a BIG ting, just in the early stages right yah now, like where PCs were before IBM moved in.

Me a try include a likkle mention of it in the workshop. Wish I could afford a 3D printer for the youth them , but in a few years we will get there.

[Willi]

Wonderful, magnificent innovation.

[Exile]

I want one of that...but it's not just 1 litre of urine...you need borax...I wonder how much it cost to generate?? Can you imagine in Jamaica people lining up outside bars collecting pee?

[Don1]

Yes i recall....never heard of them before that tho. Seems like a good ting fi reel

Yep those 3D printers are great for modeling...the US Army for example is now deploying small 3D printers in warfare theaters to rapidly prototype solutions when machine parts are needed for equipment in the field...saves a ton of time & money.

Those 3D printers are clearly becoming more commoditized and not esoteric devices

One of dese days mi bredda

[Don1]

Wonderful, magnificent innovation.

And the fuel source is 100% renewable to boot

[Willi]

Well that is how infertility drugs for ladies was produced until the late 1990s when recombinant FSH was invented.

[Don1]

I want one of that...but it's not just 1 litre of urine...you need borax...I wonder how much it cost to generate?? Can you imagine in Jamaica people lining up outside bars collecting pee?

Actually I can't imagine that

[Willi]

LoL

One guy posted "imagine what they can do with poo" . LoL

[Don1]

LOL... mi like dis one smaddy post

The first urine powered car could be called the Pi$$ant.

[Willi]

LoL

[Islandman]

Those Maker fairs are all over the place now...product design and development is going mainstream

[Exile]

Relax the mind....now try again...I can see it clearly...lol..

[Don1]

Those Maker fairs are all over the place now...product design and development is going mainstream

Sounds like a really great future adjunct to di DigiYard experience...what sayest thou??

Is it a franchise type thing or one just sets up a chapter?? ....Jamaica, Meet your Maker of the Year