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Water purifier that creates electricity with no external power source (awareness-time.com)
3 points by nopinsight on Aug 20, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The article has very few information. The original science project page (linked in the article) explains the details: https://www.googlesciencefair.com/projects/en/2014/77b0af7d7...

Also, the electricity generation part still doesn't work, unless you put hydrogen in the device:

> After the conduction of repetitive experiments, unfortunately there was not an obvious electricity yield observed no matter which solution was used. [...] As to prove that a significant amount of energy can be generate through hydrogen fuel cell, an electrolyzer was prepared to generate hydrogen.




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