Biopowered - vegetable oil and biodiesel forum
General => Chatter => Topic started by: Tony on November 07, 2012, 04:33:31 PM
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http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/11/07/forget-apps-and-other-useless-startups-these-four-african-girls-have-created-a-pee-powered-generator/
Essentially hydrolysis, why urine is effective isn't mentioned (more conductive due to salts/urea?)
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I think they are taking the pi$$. :P
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as usual not enough information, no mention of efficiency. i have come across this idea before somewhere. think the salts in urine is the thing that makes it work .there is a paper somewhere from around a year or 2 back describing the chemistry.
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Should be pretty powerful if you like Tequila then ;)
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i knew i had read about it somewhere.
http://www.ohio.edu/ceer/research/urea.cfm