Pee Powered Automobiles?
source: http://morichesdaily.com/2010/08/pee-powered-automobiles/
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Could your car someday run on the contents of your toilet? It’s possible.
Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom have figured out how to use urea as a fuel for low-cost fuel cells. Fuel cells are a great form of alternative energy for all kinds of things — cars, submarines, remote power stations — but concern over the cost of hydrogen and its explosive nature keep the technology from being widely used. Using urea — which is present in all animal and human urine — instead of hydrogen could be a low cost alternative to these super low-emission systems.
Dr. Shanwen Tao and his research partner Dr. Rong Lan have developed a prototype, the Carbamide Power System, and have just been awarded a grant of $200,000 by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council to continue their research.
Dr. Tao believes that long term potential applications of the Carbamide Power System include in submarines, among the military, power generation in an isolated or remote areas such as deserts or on islands. As the process breaks the Urea or urine into water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, it could also be used to reprocess waste water, with electricity as a by product.
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Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom have figured out how to use urea as a fuel for low-cost fuel cells. Fuel cells are a great form of alternative energy for all kinds of things — cars, submarines, remote power stations — but concern over the cost of hydrogen and its explosive nature keep the technology from being widely used. Using urea — which is present in all animal and human urine — instead of hydrogen could be a low cost alternative to these super low-emission systems.
Dr. Shanwen Tao and his research partner Dr. Rong Lan have developed a prototype, the Carbamide Power System, and have just been awarded a grant of $200,000 by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council to continue their research.
Dr. Tao believes that long term potential applications of the Carbamide Power System include in submarines, among the military, power generation in an isolated or remote areas such as deserts or on islands. As the process breaks the Urea or urine into water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, it could also be used to reprocess waste water, with electricity as a by product.
READ MORE: http://morichesdaily.com/2010/08/pee-powered-automobiles/
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