Urine-powered generator unveiled

[Catty1]

Energy bills pi**ing you off? ;)

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

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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 (http://makerfaireafrica.com/) in Lagos, Nigeria, by the four teens Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, and Faleke Oluwatoyin, all age 14, and Bello Eniola, 15.

[Karen]

Fascinating ... maybe someone will manufacture them ...

[Lady's Human]

violation of at least one law of physics for that to actually work.....

Looks nice, but you cannot get more energy out of a system than the system has to begin with, and any electrolysis of water consumes more energy then can be produced by combusting the resulting gases.

[RICHARD]

violation of at least one law of physics for that to actually work.....

Looks nice, but you cannot get more energy out of a system than the system has to begin with, and any electrolysis of water consumes more energy then can be produced by combusting the resulting gases.

While it does look promising, it fails in one respect.

Us guys are notoriously bad at 'hitting the target', so this machine would have to have a HUGE FILLER neck?:rolleyes: