Amazing Research. Your Car Could Be Run On Pee In Future.
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A method has developed for turning human effluent into electricity by a team of researchers based at the university of The West Of England in Bristol. With this method, a car could be running on pee.
The team said that urine is basically a chemical so if this chemical can be properly utilizing, it must be a fuel like any other which is used in automobiles and others like a car etc.
With the help of Microbial fuel cell (MFC), it can be doing as MFC harnesses microorganism to creating energy as a part of their metabolic process.
Microorganisms are extremely efficient more than 94% at converting organic matter into energy.
Professor Loannis Leropoulos Lead research & Director of the Bristol BioEnergy Center said ” A well performing MFC is less than 60% at its best. There is clearly a lot of room for improvement”.
The team installed a special urinal on their campus and another later at Glastonbury Music Festival.
The Glastonbury efforts collected from a thousand donors a day in a male urinal. Which allowed for a single stream recycling.
Through this MFC system, sufficient power generated to keep the stall along with interior lit with LED light fixture.
Leropoulos said, ” the effluent of MFC is cleaner than the urine went in and elementally better balanced. And also it could find uses as a fertilizer.
MFC process also allows the recovery of useful resources such as phosphate.
With the help of MFC Lithium ion phosphate batteries that allows for continuous lightening & smartphones to be recharged.
This tremendous asset can be using at the poor power infrastructural areas .
The team has directly powered continuously other electric devices. Like DC motors, DC pumps and microcontrollers for computing and sensors.
” The sun may not shine and the wind may not blow but the river of urine will continuous to flow”
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