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Offline Tony

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Urine powered genset
« on: November 07, 2012, 04:33:31 PM »
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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Re: Urine powered genset
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2012, 04:44:16 PM »
I think they are taking the pi$$. :P
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Re: Urine powered genset
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2012, 05:47:20 PM »
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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Re: Urine powered genset
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2012, 06:52:49 PM »
Should be pretty powerful if you like Tequila then ;)
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Re: Urine powered genset
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2012, 07:38:36 PM »
i knew i had read about it somewhere.

http://www.ohio.edu/ceer/research/urea.cfm
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