NIGERIAN TEENAGERS INVENT GENERATOR POWERED BY URINE

Necessity  they say is the mother of invention and frustration the father of ....

In Nigerian society, power supply is paralytic and people have resorted into providing for them selves  with the use of power generating sets which is powered by fuel, as they say Nigerians instead of fighting back when pushed to the wall, breaks the wall so as to get some more space to be comfortable.

So generators are now a number one household item in this society just as cutlass is to farm. 

But with the hike in fuel prizes and scarcity, another solution has been proffered by four secondary school female students.

The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15). These girls invented a generator that is powered by urine.

The generator is on display at an exhibition in Lagos Nigeria where people from the tiniest villages to those from big cities are talking about making stuff. This is part of an initiative by ‘Maker Faire Movement’ which seeks to showcase how traditional handicrafts can be a solution in the wake of expensive robot.

Their invention ensures that 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.

The system works like this:

1. Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.

2. The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.

3. The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.

4. This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.