{"id":213697,"date":"2025-05-09T21:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/urine-powered-electrolysis-systems-offer-energy-efficient-green-hydrogen-production"},"modified":"2025-05-09T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:18:22","slug":"urine-powered-electrolysis-systems-offer-energy-efficient-green-hydrogen-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/urine-powered-electrolysis-systems-offer-energy-efficient-green-hydrogen-production","title":{"rendered":"Urine-powered electrolysis systems offer energy-efficient green hydrogen production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/urine-powered-electrolysis-systems-offer-energy-efficient-green-hydrogen-production.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed two unique energy-efficient and cost-effective systems that use urea found in urine and wastewater to generate hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>The unique systems reveal pathways to economically generate \u201cgreen\u201d hydrogen, a sustainable and renewable energy source, and the potential to remediate nitrogenous waste in aquatic environments.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, we generate hydrogen through the electrolysis of water where water is split into oxygen and hydrogen. It is a promising technology to help solve the global energy crisis, but the process is energy intensive, which renders it cost-prohibitive when compared to extracting hydrogen from fossil fuels (gray hydrogen), itself an undesirable process because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/carbon+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">carbon emissions<\/a> it generates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed two unique energy-efficient and cost-effective systems that use urea found in urine and wastewater to generate hydrogen. The unique systems reveal pathways to economically generate \u201cgreen\u201d hydrogen, a sustainable and renewable energy source, and the potential to remediate nitrogenous waste in aquatic environments. Typically, we generate hydrogen through the electrolysis of water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213697","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}