I'm researching Energy Topics For Chem Class. Can Urine be used for energy?

Question

Please Explain How this works. I Know it can work because they have cell phone batteries and japanese AA batteries that run on urine. I need to know how this works and if its plausible and all that. Sites explaining would be GREAT!!!!!

Answer 1

Any battery using urine is only using the urine as an electrolyte. The power comes from the metals in the electrodes, like zinc or copper or whatever. The urine just replaces the acid solution that would otherwise be used. The urine doesn't get used up to make power, the copper and zinc do.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I really think pee could work in the toilet but not a cell phone..... it is only my opinion.....

Answer 4

wow that even sounds wierd, but i'm not sure, my scinece teacher just now said no, but he's not sure. that's a puzzleing questiion

Answer 5

It can also be processed into pure drinking water.

Answer 6

It already is in a sense, you just don't know it.

Urea is a component of urine that is manufactured commercially for fertilizer. Its molecule contains Nitrogen, Hydrogen and Carbon which form the basis for energy production.

Urea is used in the production of jet fuels and other fuel systems.

But it is probably as a fertilizer that urea contributes the most to the energy cycle. The problem is that Urine is discarded in the sewer system and it is considered impractical to collect or refine because human urine is so diluted with water.

But natural animal urine can be used as a substitute for chemicals that require energy to separate or refine. Sheep urine was used for centuries in wool making, but today, the process uses commercial chemicals which must be produced and then shipped.

Goat urine is still used in some areas, but at one time it was  widely used in the leather tanning process in Mediterranean area and others. The process at its peak produces a very soft leather and when done properly gives off no eau de goat.

As a natural process, full cycle, it consumes no energy but conserves energy that might otherwise be required. While malodorous, goat dung can be a good fertilizer and soil conditioner. And of course, goat curry is very good.

If you wanted to make a battery with urine, you would want to identify urine by animal type that would produce the best chemical effect without processing.  

Human Urine could probably be used in a waste recyclinng system that produces methane, i.e. natural gas, and there are a few examples of that. However, the urine is very diluted and play a relatively small role now. More efficient sewage systems could alter that mix so that urine plays a larger role.

Answer 7

Perhaps urine can be used as an energy source, I think there are too many variables to consider it.

Methane gases from p**p can be, and there is a lot of recent data published on that.

Since this is for your class, I know you want to do the looking up yourself.