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Urine’t Going to Believe This: Researchers Develop Pee-Powered Car
- Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:41am by
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KSHB reports:
Researchers at Ohio University are studying a new energy source you can produce yourself. They’re studying the power of pee.
It’s something everyone does, every day. Even though urine is nearly 99 percent water, there is a lot of hydrogen in the remaining one percent from an organic compound called urea.
To break it down, if you could collect the urine from all 24,000 students at Ohio University, you could power 60 buildings every day.
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Comments (172)
papa2thdoc
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:45amI gotta natural source of methane too!
Report Post »Hula Calhoun
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:26amWe all do. Now if we could just figure out how to harness the power of pharts.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 1:58pm@Hula
Probably starts with a blanket.
Report Post »UPGRAYDD
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:42amThis is all well and good but one thing everybody is missing is that your government will move to tax your pee in short order. Nobody in government cares about the environment or any Green movement. They only care about how much money they can steal from you.
Report Post »concealled9mms
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:41amhey that car in the picture is the one obamma wants us all to drive where do i put my ladders
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:41amWonder what that crooked piss ant, Al Gore, thinks about flamming urine…
Report Post »restoretheusa
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:40amyeah, I heard about this a while ago. Even heard about a new car that will run on urine, I think it was called the Pisser.
Report Post »PrincessLocke
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:39amNow they need to come up with an easy device for girls to use for filling up. The guys are already equipped!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 1:50pmA few of us!
Report Post »supertas
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:35amIf only the diaper astronaut lady would have known about this.
Report Post »RestoreCapitalism
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:30amImagine asking your neighbor if you can borrow a cup of pee. And they would have to modify the gas tank fill pipe for safety reasons.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:30amSounds like a green flag for everyone to just get pissy!
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:19amI think you all missed something very important it said researchers at Ohio University, I wonder how much money came out of your pockets to in a few words get pissed on.
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:19pmThrough their Innovation Center. Here is a list of the money they give away: http://www.ohio.edu/research/upload/Awardinfo4-20-11.pdf
Report Post »POIPNE
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:18amDoes that make Jack Daniels a “fuel additive”?
Will dog urine work? The dog lifts his leg on anything vertical – just have to come up with a way to collect it (just grossed myself out – eeew).
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:10amIt was right in front of us the entire time or in us.
Report Post »Nocoincidence
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:03amOne can only hope. My husband could power a small, third world country, all by himself.
Report Post »Oh wait…WE’RE becoming a small third world country!
stinkybisquit
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:02amLeave it to my Drunken Hippie Alma Mater. How can the earth lovers there do this? They’ll dry up the source of the Hocking River.
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:50amNo more filling stations just emptying ones. lol
Report Post »ryang77
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:43amat least on long trips i wont have to stop for the restroom, just pee in bottle and fill car.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:42amThis is the energy initiative that Barry is speaking about? Barry will go down in history as the man who urinated on the American Dream. He also said that he was going to set up focus groups on drilling off the Atlantic Coast and parts of Alaska. These focus groups will study this for 10-15 years, then lease them out to Brazil, Cuba, Russia. No American company’s need apply. What a Superhero
Report Post »Anybody but “Whats his name”, 2012
psst
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:29amBTW, next time you are in any major city across the fruited plains, you WILL come across mucho mucho winos urinating in the gutters or alley-ways.
Report Post »Appreciate them. They are a God-send to ween US off of Evil Oil.
Many of them will soon be the next Gates,Zukerberg or Jobs.
They already produce much of our blood supplies.Now they will be increasing their industrial productions for both blood and urine gas.
Never underestimate American ingenuity
cloudsofwar
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:24amPee powered cars, give me a brake. IS this more of BO green commie energy. or should i say yellow commie energy? Anyway RON PAUL for POTUS.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:07amThis could be another source of income for our locail bars .Alcohal and hydrogen.Give me one more.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:58amI wonder if vinegar works? I’m full of both this morning.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:10amdon`t use the vinegar I need it for my pickles.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:51amWell, that beats using our food supply….DUH! However, the thought of how much it would take to run my hummer, just boggles the mind! ; )
Report Post »psst
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:51amWhich brand of beer produces the richest urea.
Report Post »I remember posting to leftists (many moons ago on one of Slate’s site) who want’s to shut down drilling for oil that they should start urinating in their gas tanks.
Gee, I was really ahead of the times.
Gotta start drinking more beer. Or coffee
Now just watch the government put a ban on both.
Hula Calhoun
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:21amYes, they’ll want to create funding for alternate sources for pee.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:46amWhy not Poop runs our Govt
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:12amIt sure does, our government is FOS.
My vomit powers Cheney’s pacemaker.
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:48amGod Bless you mace. Keep puking man.. keep that man going. Without him there would be no seal team 6 so you helped kill osama. Your a frekin hero you regurgitating mastermind.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:49ampee to run your car ?
Report Post »that should bring drinking and driving to a whole new level…LOL
tower7femacamp
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:50amtesting us for the Matrix no doubt…
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:59am@ Sinista MACE—You gotta start eating better.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:07amI can’t help it, everytime he appears on tv I get this nasty official kool-aid taste in my mouth and just start hurling everywhere, so I decided to collect it and send it to Cheney, and whadayaknow, he turned vomit into vomitade.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:26amSinista MACE;
Report Post »Stop drinking Kool-aid.
OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:15pmYa’ know, with a car like this, you could just run a hose from the carburetor to your… well, you know, and then just cruise all across the country with a cooler of Coors Light in the passenger seat. Don’t worry about drunk driving, as Coors Light doesn’t seem to have that effect on most folks, but it does make it necessary to “whiz” every few minutes.
Who knows… this could even help to redefine the whole drinking & driving thing?
Report Post »AmericanWomanFirst
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:44amew..lol
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:28amThe peeps that developed this are No 1.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:29amWell, we’ve had the vee-eight, the straight-eight, and now we’ve got the urinate. A great little car for ******* around town in.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:33amp issing around town in. Damned auto censor ruined my little joke.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:58amThey could develop a gauge in the dash to read drug and alcohol levels. Then a light on the car would go off when unsafe driving levels are violated. The libs will love it because they could stop all suspect dui stops.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:02amLets all piss on Obama, its the green thing to do
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:05amOk, these posts are keepers. Actually NZKIWI, I was thinking of more of a pee-8 engine, but urine-8 will do!
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:09amYes, but it will have to stop at every gas station!
Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:37amUgh, really?
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stifroc
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:54amokay, providing Big Government allows this to take off… cuz the focus of green energy is NOT green energy, it’s redistribution of wealth…
Report Post »#1. everyone will be collecting urine.
#2. everyone will be storing urine.
#3. Will a “port-a-potty” become a gold mine?
#4. How are women going to collect their urine? (little more difficult than it is for a man)
Creestof
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:02amSo drinking beer and driving will be legal?
All these years we have had all this free energy available to us…and we’ve just been ******* it away : )
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:04amHmmm…my turn!
Poop-powered roller skates!
Collect everyone’s poop in a giant container, heat it up, and use the gas emitted to power tiny jets on the roller skates!
Fartskates!!
YEARRRGHHhhhHHhhHhHhHhhh!
Report Post »pavnvet
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:15amHMMM could I say then my car just petered out? Or maybe tell the mechanic that it has piss poor performance?
Report Post »watchmany2k
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 10:57amI’d have to see their numbers, but this is along the boondoggle of the water powered car.
Your tax dollars at work.
Can you make hydrogen ?
Yep.
Can you get out more energy than you put in ?
Nope.
At least a poop powered Car would be more viable as the
METHANE produced has a LOT more C’s & H’s for combustion.
For Viable alternative Fuels & science:
Report Post »http://www.watchman2012.com
right-wing-waco
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 11:38am@stifroc
Report Post »It’s not GREEN energy is it? At least mine isn’t green.
Showtime
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:00pmNZKIWI,
Report Post »What can I say?!
CatB
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:19pmThis is a win win .. .drink beer and power your car!
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:23pmMan that’s great .I have an idea for my new business “drattastic’s wiz and go” I have a bar in the front and a filling station in the back . Hide your eyes kids we have to stop and fill up.
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:37pmCongress is now trying to figure out yet another way to tax the piss out of us.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:52pmDon’t forget all the animals that can urinate for this energy source, from Elephants to piss-ants…A Virtual Golden shower mine.
BO’s turn to collect pee from Bimbo…
Report Post »MomaGrisley2
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 12:59pmWill OU’s new mascots be Piss Ants?
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 2:21pmI will have to take a half a viagra a day so I can reach my gas tank…
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 4:16pmChris Matthews keeps a pic of Obama on the dashboard, and his “tingle-mobile” keeps going, and going…
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 5:11pmHey this will help the beer and coffee markets too!
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:04pmurea contains nitrogen (good fertilizer.) It’s liquid,,,so of course it has hydrogen in it. I think it’s the nitrogen they are more interested in.
Report Post »GoingBeck
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:04pmPeople with large bladders will be able to market their excess. A new commodities market called URINCO will be formed to trade in urenergy futures. The Obama Department of Urenergy will put caps on the amount of beer any one person can consume in a one hour period. “Under my plan, the price of urenergy will necessarily skyrocket.” UPEC’s attempt to manipulate production will bring about the collapse of the Uero and the ureconomy will stall. The UOP will run on a platform of lowering the beer drinking age to 10. This will bring the price of urenergy down and things will start moving again.
Report Post »New White Tiger Party
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 8:39pmThey also generate power from dandelions and they got a few million dollar grant to do it. If it‘s ever perfected I’m sittin’ on a fortune!
Report Post »912er
Posted on May 14, 2011 at 9:37pmI’ll be designated drive and will never pay for fuel again…
Report Post »MiketheTrucker
Posted on May 15, 2011 at 12:13amEverybody start drinking more beer, then we can tell OPEC to kiss off.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on May 15, 2011 at 10:51amA great idea, but I’ll bet you the smell of by products are prohibited by the EPA.
Report Post »s-n-t
Posted on May 15, 2011 at 2:03pmSome internet knowledge – veracity unverified. In ancient times, urine was collected and sold to tanneries, IF one was fortunate enough to be able to afford a collection pot. Those who were not were said to not have “a pot to pee in.” Here we go again…..
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