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Researchers have figured out a way to make the world's first urine-powered fuel cells. Chemistry postdocs Shanwen Tao and Rong Lan at Heriot-Watt University's School of Engineering and Physical Sciences in Edinburgh are turning pee into electricity and clean water with a prototype fuel cell system.

The Carbamide Power System prototype can break urea or urine from humans or animals down into water, nitrogen, and CO2, and also produce electricity. Municipalities currently spending a ton of money and energy removing urea from wastewater, could help reduce those costs by incorporating a system like this.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100827/981/tsc-urine-powered-fuel-cells-to-offer-pe_1.html

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