13-year-old generates Electricity from Cow’s Urine

A 13-year-old school girl studying in 8th class generated electricity from cow’s urine. Sakshi Dashora, a student of Gadvada Vyas Academy, Mavli made a project ‘Importance of cow breed in 21st century’ entailing the scientific use of cow’s urine and cow dung.

Under Ministry of Science and Technology’s Inspire Award, the project will get international recognition. This project will be represented in Japan at a 7-day seminar after 2 months. Sakshi will be giving a lecture at the event.

Sakshi informed that cow urine has sodium, potassium, magnesium, sulphur and phosphorous. In her project, she immersed copper and aluminum electrode in one liter urine which was attached to LED watch via wires. The watch started to work with generation of electricity and was inferred that electricity will be produced according to the quantity of the urine.

Sakshi Dashora for this project was ranked 6th in Udaipur district in Aug 2014. Later she secured 12th rank at State Level exhibition held at Dungarpur in September and 2nd at National level.