Fuel Cells From Nanomaterials Made From Human Urine

New submitter turning in circles (2882659) writes 'Carbon based fuel cells require carbon doped with other elements, normally platinum, for oxygen reduction reactions. Urine contains carbon with an exciting splash of nitrogen, sulfur, potassium, silicon, and so on, and you don't have to manufacture it: the stuff just comes out by itself. In an article published this week in an open journal, researchers from Korea reported a new nanomaterial for fuel cells, which they dub "Urine Carbon." Upon drying, and then heating at 1000C, and rinsing of salts, the resulting Urine Carbon porous nanostructures outperformed Carbon/platinum in electrodes.'

Comments

the stuff just comes out by itself

[LesFerg]

I'm sure you can get some kind of medical treatment for that

Re:All it takes is power

[DougOtto]

If peeing in your gas tank is wrong I don't want to be right.

And it's just the first step!

[Opportunist]

But I'm not so sure we want to be around for number two...