Hello All,
Yesterday, I
saw a story which blew my mind. Its the account of four young Nigerian girls
who looked at the electricity problem in Nigerian and created an unusual
solution - A URINE-POWERED GENERATOR...Yes, you heard right, URINE.
Dear friends,
meet Duro-Aina Adebola aged 14, Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14)
and Bello Eniola (15), students from the Chemistry laboratory of Doregos Private Academy, a secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria.
Adebola
recounts that previously she had read online about nine members of a family who died from a generator's carbon monoxide fumes. This made her think about what she could do to provide a safer alternative source of energy.
"I was sad about how people died trying to provide electricity for themselves, trying to make life better" - Duro-Aina Adebola
In 2012, she teamed up with her three friends to help find a solution to a recurring problem. They decided to design a safe urine-powered generator to create an alternative access to electricity.
For the science-oriented readers, this process you may understand:
o
Urine
is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.
o
The
hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into
the gas cylinder.
o
The
gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to
remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.
o
This
purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.
Okay.
So, there you
have it, an invention out of what we would typically waste.
Kudos
girls!!!
So, till 12 Noon next Tuesday, let me run off to go think of what I could innovate out of ……… J
Bye People!!!
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