{"id":114017,"date":"2020-10-07T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/urine-turned-into-hydrogen-fuel"},"modified":"2020-10-07T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:25:27","slug":"urine-turned-into-hydrogen-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/urine-turned-into-hydrogen-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Urine turned into hydrogen fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/urine-turned-into-hydrogen-fuel2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2009<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Whizz electrocatalyst frees the hydrogen from \u2018liquid gold\u2019<\/p>\n<p>US researchers have developed an efficient way of producing hydrogen from urine \u2014 a feat that could not only fuel the cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater.<\/p>\n<p>Using hydrogen to power cars has become an increasingly attractive transportation fuel, as the only emission produced is water \u2014 but a major stumbling block is the lack of a cheap, renewable source of the fuel. Gerardine Botte of Ohio University may now have found the answer, using an electrolytic approach to produce hydrogen from urine \u2014 the most abundant waste on Earth \u2014 at a fraction of the cost of producing hydrogen from water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2009 Whizz electrocatalyst frees the hydrogen from \u2018liquid gold\u2019 US researchers have developed an efficient way of producing hydrogen from urine \u2014 a feat that could not only fuel the cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater. Using hydrogen to power cars has become an increasingly attractive transportation fuel, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}