Gooooooood Morning SuperForest!
I hope this Sunday finds SuperForesters everywhere in high spirits and fine style.
Mr. Benny Mack has a piece (piss?) up over at wired.com about the work of Ohio scientist Garardine Botte, who has cleverly discovered a way of creating hydrogen from urine.
How?
“(Ms. Botte) claims the device uses significantly less energy than is needed to extract hydrogen from water and says it could power hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the near future. Her electrolyzer uses a nickel-based electrode to extract hydrogen from urea (NH2)2CO, the main component in urine. Hydrogen is less tightly bound to the nitrogen in urea than to the oxygen in water, so the electrolyzer needs just 0.37 volts across the cell to oxidize the urea, according to Botte. That’s less than half the amount of energy in an AA battery and considerably less than the 1.23 volts needed to split water.”
“An electrolyzer built into a car would eliminate the need for a hydrogen storage tank, and with the right partnership, I believe we could have pee-powered cars capable of 60 miles per gallon on the road within a year.”
To condense: It is easier to make hydrogen from pee than water. Waaayyyyyy easier.
Here’s the full article. Thanks, Benny Mack and Ms. Garardine Botte!
With no shortage of pee in the forseeable future, a pee-based economy could be very interesting.
Brave New Times we’re living in.
LOL!
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