The Maker Faire is a well known event across the African continent, drawing thousands of participants who travel to Lagos to exhibit their inventions and other practical creations. Four African girls showed off 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.
How 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.
Just remember to look the other way during refueling!
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