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‘Pee power’: UK university trials electricity generating toilet
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‘Pee power’: UK university trials electricity generating toilet
A British university has developed a prototype toilet that is able to convert human urine into electricity, in the hope the technology can be used in refugee camps
The ‘pee powered’ urinal, which was invented by researchers at the Bristol-based University of the West of England (UWE), is being trialed outside the student union bar on Thursday afternoon.
Scientists used microbial fuel stacks (MFC) in the toilets, which feed on urine, creating biochemical energy in a process that can be turned into electricity.
It’s hoped the technology can be used to light toilets in refugee camps around the world, where people are at risk of rape and sexual assault at night.
Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos, director of the Bristol BioEnergy Center, led the research team.
Ieropoulos said: “The microbial fuel cells work by employing live microbes which feed on urine (fuel) for their own growth and maintenance.”
“The MFC is in effect a system which taps a portion of that biochemical energy used for microbial growth, and converts that directly into electricity – what we are calling urine-tricity or pee power.”
Researchers at Bristol BioEnergy Center made national headlines in 2013 when they demonstrated the same technology can use urine can to charge a mobile phone.
Students at UWE will be able to test the ‘pee power’ urinal for themselves on Thursday afternoon, when it will be installed outside the students’ union bar.
The microbial fuel cells sit underneath the urinal and can be viewed through a clear screen…..more here
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