http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/urine-powered-generator-unveiled-international-exhibition-234718329.html

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.

Impressive!

geeez: Impressive!

So called Yahoo generalised the effort of our Sisters using the word "AFRICANS". They are Nigerian girls and should be recognised so. Kudos really to these brilliant kids.

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Wow!! Brilliant invention.

One small pee for man, one giant PEE for mankind.

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One litre of urine will now sell for 200naira.that's good!

What an invention!

Now all we need is lots of piss.... can obama hear this..... we can power our cars with piss in Nigeria ...

Amazing, this is what we can achieve if we simply put our minds to work.
Kudos ladies, i hope this moves to the next level..

gbanikiti:
One litre of urine will now sell for 200naira.that's good!

The recent plummet in the urine price is down to "speculation" by traders, rather than oversupply.

Nice one,,may Allah continually bless the Odua nation..

Our problem is not that we lack people that are highly gifted but we fail to support them. Kudos to you girls! What a man can do......

nice one girls reppin odudua well

nice one girls reppin odua well