Back in 2012, 4 teenage girls from Nigeria, who were just 14 and 15-year olds at that time, invented a generator that is powered by what seems to be an unlikely source of electricity: urine. Their invention was highlighted by Maker Faire Africa which supports Afrigadget-type innovations, inventions, and initiatives.
The 4 girls — Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, and Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola — remarkably figured out a way to convert one liter of urine to fuel that can produce up to six hours of electricity from their generator.
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Their ground-breaking scientific breakthrough started as part of a high school project, the four girls working with an engineer to understand the technology and its appropriate applications developed A urine-powered generator presented at an innovation fair in Africa is generating buzz as a world-changing breakthrough.
The contraption in question is an electrolytic cell that converts urea — the main compound in urine besides water — into nitrogen, water, and hydrogen.
“What the kids did were to take urea electrolysis and making hydrogen and then using that hydrogen to make electricity,” Gerardine Botte, a chemical engineer at Ohio University who invented the urea electrolysis process, told NBC News when asked to comment on the generator.
According to information provided on the Maker Faire Africa website about the pee-powered system, one liter of urine provides six hours of electricity. NEPA like other bankrupted Nigerian utility companies will eventually be obsolete as new solar, wind and even pee-power generators take over the power supplies in Nigeria.
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