Mars Missions Could See Advent Of “Pee Power”

Is this a case of much ado about nothing – or not? We have just come to know about how urine technology could be sent to Mars, the Red Planet, to help out in the Mars missions. According to Professor Gerardine Botte, the urine technology here happens to be an urine converter which is known as “GreenBox” for future Mars missions. GreenBox happens to be one of the finalists in a Mars One competition that intends to send new technologies over to our neighboring planet.

To find volunteers who are willing to drink their own urine is not an easy thing to do, but apparently a scientist from the Ohio University figured out that her “pee power” technology will be able to persuade astronauts who embark on future Mars missions to drink their own bodily waste.

The “GreenBox” basically converts urine into energy and water, where it will use urine in order to make both hydrogen and water – simultaneously. Do you think you will be able to stomach such an idea? Basically, the GreenBox device is capable of converting 20 ml of urine into 16 ml of water, where the only byproducts would be hydrogen and nitrogen. With some of those byproducts being captured by a fuel cell in the box, it will make use of up to 53% of the energy from the urine.

Edwin Kee
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