Urinate, Get Your Phone Charged: Scientists Create Urine-powered Fuel Cell That Can Recharge a Mobile Phone

People constantly worry about how to charge their phones when there is no power supply especially in Sub-Sahara Africa where power supply is so erratic. All these worries might have come to an end as scientists in the UK have finally created what they  call the “world’s first” urine-powered fuel cell.

The fuel cell, powered by your own urine or someone else’s, currently generates enough power to enable texting, web browsing, or a brief phone call (or, presumably, if you’ve drunk a lot of water, a not-so-brief call).

The technology was developed by Ioannis Ieropoulos and friends, is named  stack or cascade of microbial fuel cells. As the name suggests, a microbial fuel cell (MFC) contains microbes that feed on organic matter and produce electricity in the process.

Trust my Igbo  brothers from the East, Very soon there will be urine factories in Naija..