Nigerians have done it again. At this year’s Maker Faire Africa held in Lagos, four teenage Nigerian girls amazed us with the invention of a generator which runs on urine. . . that’s right, you heard me right, I said URINE!
It’s such a novel concept that I wonder: Why in the world didn’t I think of this before?! A urine-powered generator! Amazing! The system works like this: When urine is put into an electrolyte cell, it separates the hydrogen, which then goes into a water filter for purification. The hydrogen gets pushed into a gas cylinder which pushes it into a cylinder of liquid Borax which then removes the moisture from the hydrogen gas. The purified hydrogen gas is then pushed into the generator, and you’re ready to go.
Simple, right?
I’m thrilled. Think of all the possibilities for a minute: No more whipping out your thingie and peeing by the roadside; you can now do that in the privacy of your home, lest someone accosts you with a gun to your head, screaming, “gimme your pee!” Aspects of the Gidi environmental law will have to take a chill pill. The price of pee will automatically skyrocket and black market ‘pee hawkers’ will thrust gallons of pee in your face as they try to market their ‘product’. Parents will smile again ‘cos bedwetting will become a source of joy. . . and profit. Demand for water will go up, and homes will reek, following over-the-night ‘deposits’ of the stuff in containers. Everywhere you look, there’ll be people carrying plastic bags for ‘harvesting’ their precious resource. . . I could go on and on.
That’s the funny side. The serious angle to this is that the economy of OPEC countries who rely on fuel for foreign income and domestic use will crash (If the technology can be re-applied). Those girls are gonna make millions on patent rights (If they have a good lawyer). . . and I can now sleep soundly at night.
A urine-powered generator. . . what’s there not to like?
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