Comments | hammercock: oh, squee!

hammercock

oh, squee!

Nov 09, 2012 02:38

Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Africa who invented a urine-powered generator.

See also this article about it.

Comments 8

vvalkyri November 9 2012, 08:37:00 UTC

after a fair amount of searching found something explaining the process a bit better http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/news/2009/july/02070902.asp

miss_lisa_ma November 9 2012, 12:11:42 UTC

OUT.
STAND.
And ING.

muffyjo November 9 2012, 13:25:37 UTC

This is marvelous! I wonder what the by-product waste is? I'll take a look at vvalkyri's article next but have to run at the moment. Still...GO THEM! Nice find!

And you, way to rock the internets for the powers of good!

kalliejenn2 November 9 2012, 13:46:45 UTC

damn!

lioritgioret November 9 2012, 14:22:21 UTC

I'm just thinking about how fast we can equip FEMA with a few million of these. If you could build a urine-only porta-potty on top of it and airdrop them into disaster areas, you'd solve an awful lot of problems.
Now let's get those girls on to water purification and turning lead into gold.