4 Nigerian Teenage Girls Invents Urine-Fueled Generator

Posted by: lukwago J in Tech April 8, 2016

Here’s some news from Africa that will be of interest to all of the people waiting in line for gas to use in their generators after Hurricane Sandy. Four teenage girls figured out a way to use a liter of urine as fuel to get six hours of electricity from their generator.

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Fourteen-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, and Faleke Oluwatoyin, and 15-year-old Bello Eniola displayed their invention this week at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria, an annual event meant to showcase ingenuity.

Here’s how the urine-powered generator works, as explained by the blog on the maker faire africa website.

Urine is put into an electrolytic cell

This seperates out the hydrogen, the hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, and then into a gas cylinder, which looks similar to the kind used for outdoor barbecue grills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f48zowFhVFA

The gas cylinder pushes the filtered hydrogen into another cylinder that contains liquid borax, in order to remove moisture from the gas. Borax is a natural mineral, commonly used in laundry detergent.

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The hydrogen is pushed into a power generator in the final step of the process.

A big drawback is that hydrogen poses an explosion risk. But the girls used one-way valves throughout the device as a safety measure. Its now time for African young girls to involve themselves in inventions, not only boys, but its now for all. Everyone has the ability to invent something, but it takes courage, confidence and determination.

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