Possibly one
of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a
urine powered generator, created by four girls. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola
(14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15). 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 one 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 and it is powered on.
This is
coming as good news for some Americans who are currently in black out due to
lack of power and fuel to power their generator after the storm recently hit
New York City leaving thousands without power or fuel to power their homes
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