Nigerian Girl Invents Urine Powered Generator

Petroleum products like Petrol and diesel has been Nigeria's main source of energy to power its machines. Actually, Nigerians can not do without petrol, (thanks to NEPA) which costs an arm and a leg to buy not to talk about hazards presented in the process of storing and usage. it is not uncommon news to hear of fatal accidents, domestic or otherwise as a result of fuel explosion or carbon monoxide poisoning.
As it is now, an alternative source of energy that is less expensive and less polluting would be very welcome. These hazards presented by the use of petrol have
motivated a particular Nigerian girl with the guidance of her school teacher to invent a urine powered generator. It sounds funny right, but the thing is that it worked and the project took them to America where they won gold medals.
This urine powered generator was modeled to work like this

1.  Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
2.   The hydrogen enters a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into a gas cylinder.
3.  The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen.
4. This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

Watch video below to see how they carried out this incredible exploit


The girls came up with the idea that the electrolysis  of urine could isolate the hydrogen molecules needed to power the generator and one thing i love about this is that the generator produces water vapour  as waste product.

The implications behind this technology, or any clean energy technology for that matter is far reaching. We are constantly presented with better ways of doing things, but rarely do we see a quick implementation or production of these technologies. The urine powered generator technology has many applications. Agriculture and waster water treatment operations for example, not to mention the construction industry all deal with the disposal of ammonia.  Why not use this ammonia for energy generation in multiple ways? The invention could aid farmers to treat the ammonia waste. A technology like this would only require 1 kilowatt of power to operate an entire commercial building with 300 employees.

Imagine if the waste from your bathroom visits was transported into a tank which converted it into energy to power your own house. What if all the toilets in your city all led to one spot which converted the waste to harness immense power? I know it’s not that easy, but the technology is there.

If we want to help our planet we must move away from the use of unsustainable energy technologies such as oil and nuclear, on a mass scale. Energy generation practices that aren’t clean should be banned from use. The cleaner and greener options are already here, we just need the information to reach more people.

Everybody on the planet should have access to clean green power, we have the solutions to make this possible. The implications of some clean green energy generation techniques are far reaching, and would eliminate poverty worldwide.