OU Researcher’s “GreenBox” Creates Hydrogen, Clean Water From
Urine  from Wildlife Promise  0 2/15/2011 // By NWF  By Audrey
Rabalais Science Editor, College Green Magazine  The answers to
clean water, clean air and waste management could all be held
inside a box as small as a mini-fridge. E3 Clean Technologies,
based in Athens,Ohio, is in the process of producing GreenBoxes,
the brainchild of company founder Gerri Botte.  Botte, director
and founder of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Research,
or CEER, at Ohio University, has developed the technology for a
machine that uses wastewater to produce energy and clean water.
It sends an electrical current through urine, isolating the
hydrogen in urine for use in fuel cells.  Though it varies in
size based on intended use, the GreenBox is a metal cube with
tubes and wires extending from various parts of it. A one-
kilowatt unit can power a commercial building with 300
employees, Botte said. The research and development of the
GreenBox happens in the labs of CE