Meet The Young Man Who Claims He Can Use Human Poo To Generate Electricity [Photo]

A 19-year-old boy indentified as Thabo Ramatse, from Sowoto in South Africa, claimed he can use human poo to generate electricity.

Thabo Ramatse said if there is enough poo, he hopes to solve the country’s power generation problems.

According to him, he got the idea from his mum, who told him about a woman who had fallen into a pit toilet and died because of the heat in the hole.

This made him realise that pit toilets have loads of heat that could power electricity.

In 2015 he decided to test his theory.

First Thabo caught poo fumes in a plastic squeeze bottle. He closed the lid and threw the bottle into a fire.

When the bottle popped before it caught fire he carried on with his experiment.

“I scraped nails with sandpaper and dipped them in methanol before I attached the nails to a wire.

“I inserted the wire inside a pit toilet where the kak was boiling.

“Then I attached the wire to a light bulb.”

The heat from the human waste heated up the wire and the bulb lit up.

The energy that Thabo creates is similar to what happens inside your stomach when you eat food. Poo gradually gets broken down into biogas.

Thabo wants government to use his idea to create jobs for unemployed young people.

He said he was trying to find ways to generate electricity using acid and turbines