As world searches for clean energy to reduce
the rate of global warming, a group of highly
intelligent high school students from Nigeria
have built an electricity-generating system
that can be powered with just urine.
The students, all girls aged between 14 and
15 years old created the power system and
ran it for six hours with just 1 litre of urine
at the Maker Faire Africa.
The girls who invented the urine-powered
generator
The girls Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele
Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello
Eniola (15) created a system in which urine is
put into an electrolytic cell, which separates
out the hydrogen. The hydrogen then goes
into a water filter for purification and goes
into the gas cylinder.
The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a
cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to
remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the
generator to produce electricity.
Duro-Aina, one of the young inventors,
explained that the invention was borne out of
their interest to create a clean energy
generating set.
She said that the main motivation for the
project was hearing about an increase in
carbon monoxide deaths from fossil-fuel
powered generators put into use due to a
failing Nigerian energy grid and wanting to
“make a generator that won’t release carbon
monoxide.”
Expectedly, some investors have been trying
to find a way to turn the invention into a
product that can produce sustainable energy
for the world even though the invention was
built for a kiddies science fair way back in
2012.
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