Four Nigerian teenage girls have invented a generator powered which can use a litre of urine to produce six hours of electricity.
The girls - Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola displayed the invention at the annual event Maker Faire Africa, held in Lagos.
She said that the family members died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning as they inhaled fumes emanating from their generator while asleep. The four friends named themselves"Fantastic Four" and began their journey to develop a solution which later on became successful and celebrated even on a global scale.
According to the girls, the premise of their invention was that if hydrogen was the raw material in their generator, the end product would be water. The team said after they experimented with water, they encountered a hurdle. Adebola mentioned that they initially built a system consisting of an electrolytic cell, which consisted of an old car battery. The system also had filters and pipes as well as an empty gas storage tank.
The Fantastic Four said when they first exhibited their invention publicly, people did not have hope it would work. But they remained determined and made improvements to it. They gained national attention when they exhibited their invention once again at the Maker Faire Africa in 2012.
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