Science Invents a Way to Power Cars With Your Pee
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i don't envy the techs that have to work at those conversion plants if this becomes a reality XD
Quite a lot. Beer will increase the H2O volume of your urine however it is urea (the yellow bit) that is generating the power. This is created from breaking down amino acids found in proteins. Bottom line: drinking beer doesn't help, you need to eat a steak dinner.008Zulu said:
Thats cool and everything and very impressive.. but wont the busy roads just STINK of piss all the time?
Yeah, piss might be free, but electrolysis sure isn't. It still takes a huge amount of effort to make hydrogen out of pee, and even if the raw component is "free" (like water, for instance. I'm guessing it's more effective to make hydrogen out of piss than water. Did you know that the first car-engine was based on hydrogen distilled from water? No? Well that's because the major petrol-corporations bought up the patents and then shut down the research and production), it's still isn't free to produce, nor is it very effective. One of the main reasons petrol > water or electricity is that is is simply more "bang for the buck".Quazimofo said:
More of petrol's effectiveness goes towards actually driving the engine, instead of being just "wasted energy" in form of excess energy like heat and sound. And oh, even tho electric cars in some cases are more effective, it takes a shitload bigger storage-capacity in the form of a battery than it takes for the same amount of efficiency when it comes to a fuel-tank.
True, this will probably change, if we ever put some research-money into more effective batteries, or tanks that can hold hydrogen, so all and all I'm glad they are researching it.
Just don't think that it will be any major change soon. Not before the oil runs out.
I find it very disturbing that you had to clarify for your audience that "electrode" wasn't a pokemon in this case.
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Oh, boo! Bad pun/joke. >Racecarlock said:
That's almost as bad as the joke that Gilbert Goddfried made about the tsunami.
On topic: That is interesting...in its on way.
i'm curious about the science of this-would urine that had drug or alcohol traces in it be unusable? does there need to be a certain water content for it to work, or is there one that gets better mileage? i love this idea 100%, but how do girls refuel? so many questions...i need a scientist!
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You summed up what I wanted to add, for the most part. It's nice to see that people aren't defending oil. Whenever I talk about how we have already reached "peak oil", people just say, "Oh... but we have alternative sources when it goes away."Realitycrash said:
I don't think we do. None of the alternative fuel sources that have been proposed can replace oil. Hell, most of them need the infrastructure that oil provides to even produce them! If we like the way the world works now, we need to use the oil we have to prepare for when we don't have it. Starting NOW and without mercy for towards the oil industry regardless of how much they are willing to pay out to stop us.