Hearing the news, I don't know whether to be sad or happy: Scientists have found a technology to turn urine into beer! 3
For many people who don’t like drinking beer or alcohol, they often say that beer tastes a bit like urine. In northern China, when the husband is drunk, wives often say: `Drink a few glasses of horse urine.`
For someone who doesn’t know Chinese, hearing that sentence will probably feel a bit shocking because they don’t know if they actually drink real horse urine.
However, today that is no longer a simile, because scientists have recently developed a technology that can indirectly turn urine into beer, not knowing that people who drink this beer will feel uncomfortable.
Belgian scientists at Ghent University have built a solar-powered machine that can indirectly turn urine into beer.
Belgian researchers from Ghent University said that the main components in urine are water and fertilizer.
This technology can be used in some places where water is scarce, and the other substances extracted are very good fertilizers and can be used directly as fertilizer.
According to statistics, there are currently more than 800 million people suffering from poverty due to lack of water resources.
However, because the Belgians’ love for beer is so strong, researchers used this device to extract water and some other ingredients to create beer glasses.
Representative of the research team, scientist Sebastiaan Derese affirmed: `We can recover drinking water and fertilizer from urine with just a simple filtration process with solar energy.`
According to Sebastiaan Derese – head of the research team, Belgian beer is famous around the world thanks to its rich flavor, but using one’s own urine to make cool, fragrant beers is absolutely unprecedented.
The indispensable ingredient to make beer is water. The purer the water, the better quality the beer, so they used the urine of `beer worms` to extract the water.
After the first batch of beer was brewed, those who contributed urine became the first guests of this beer in the world.
According to them, in fact, beer brewed this way has no special flavor compared to regular beer, but it feels very strange.
Even for beer addicts who usually drink 4-5 beers a day after drinking one beer of this type, they can’t continue to drink it. Even though the taste is no different, they feel very guilty.
This device is capable of converting urine into clean water, and then beer
This change surprised the researchers because initially this device was created for the purpose of saving water resources, but the results showed that it was quite useful in limiting people’s alcohol consumption.
The research team plans to place this device at music festivals in Ghent City, expected to collect about 1,000 liters of urine from festival participants, then extract them and brew beer to provide free of charge.
However, according to experience from previous years, the beer consumption of this music festival is extremely large, so it will be very welcome, but if the origin of this beer is announced in advance, it will definitely
In addition, the research team also hopes to deploy the device on a larger scale in the future at stadiums or airports to provide more potable water and fertilizer to places in need such as rural areas and in urban areas.
