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Be Amazed: These Socks Generate Energy from Urine

Samantha Joe — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 07:20:13 +0000

At the University of West England, a research team has developed a new kind of energy creating clothing: a pair of socks that use urine for generating electricity. These socks can store up to 650 milliliters of liquid by using a network of built-in tubes. The liquid is forced through microbial cells by using the […]

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Scientists Recycle Urine to Produce Fresh Drinking Water and Energy

Mila Luleva — Wed, 21 May 2014 15:16:18 +0000

New renewable energy sources are being explored by scientists constantly. Inventions and discoveries flood the scientific journals, unfortunately often the experiments and findings do not materialize and remain only as a nicely formatted print. There are exceptions to this rule, of course, and one might well have just made it into the news. The new […]

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Amsterdam Collects Urine to Fertilize City’s Green Roofs

Mila Luleva — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:54:38 +0000

Earlier this month, the city of Amsterdam was the host of the International Water Week, a remarkable event that gathered environmentalists and governmental officials, who joined forces to seek for solutions to problems associated with scarcity of water resources due to sea level rise, climate change, population growth and drought. Campaigners from around the world […]

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New Fuel Cell Powers Mobile Phones Using Urine

Mila Luleva — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:07:26 +0000

Scientists from University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory in Southwest England found a way to charge a mobile device using the power of urine. Their study was published in the latest issue of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. The team created a fuel cell, which uses bacteria to break […]

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Hydrogen Easier to Extract from Urine Than from Water

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:06:22 +0000

I know - it sounds gross, but obtaining hydrogen from urea is actually cheaper than obtaining it from water, through the same electrolysis process. The study is being led by Gerardine Botte of Ohio University and it all started from an idea to recycle the wastewater.

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Nanologix turns urine to electricity

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:06:15 +0000

Everyone agrees hydrogen is a wonderful fuel to use, whether in fuel cells or normal engines, as the exhaust is pure water. However, there are three major problems with hydrogen: producing, storing and transporting it. Traditional methods of producing hydrogen use electricity for hydrolysis or reformatting natural gas into hydrogen. These methods waste energy, with […]

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