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In reply to the discussion: Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Africa who invented a urine-powered generator. [View all]uponit7771
(90,335 posts)3. NICE THINKING!!! There's way more hydrogen in urine than in sea water. If the electrolosis can be...
...made efficient like it has been for a couple of other devices the the whole "energy" from nothing crap can be dispelled...
Or, it could be easier to get more out of urine than sea water.
It's not energy from nothing, or in this case getting more energy out of a substance than what is put into it to get it out, its a lot of what we use from a little of what isn't as useful...
6 hours of running from one liter = more energy out of urine than what went it to extracting it (in theory).
I pray they get funded for larger devices
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Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Africa who invented a urine-powered generator. [View all]
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
OP
I'm guessing it doesn't produce much 'net' electricity... but, they are on the right track??
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
#8
You could say the 'invention' part, is doing it in africa, with a pile of junk??
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
#23
NICE THINKING!!! There's way more hydrogen in urine than in sea water. If the electrolosis can be...
uponit7771
Nov 2012
#3
i think it's gasoline... went to the weblink and there were a bunch of folks discussing
trailmonkee
Nov 2012
#13
In other words, Botte is pissy she had to become a chemical engineer to do what these kids did.
Indpndnt
Nov 2012
#29
without reading the article, I venture to guess these girls are Oprah's girls?
secondwind
Nov 2012
#42