Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published December 27, 2012.
Most people in Nigeria rely on generators to power their homes and businesses because OF frequent electricity failures. Many use cheap, Chinese-made generators with very high carbon emissions. When the generators aren’t properly ventilated, poisonous emissions can be deadly and have killed many People including entire families. But a new emission-free, urine-powered generator developed by four teen-aged girls could present deaths like these in the future. FSRN’s Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
