Juicing up laptops and cell phones with soda pop or vegetable oil?
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 03:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Scientists today reported development of a new battery-like device that opens the possibility that people one day could 'recharge' cell phones, laptops, and other portable electronics in an unlikely way - with a sugar fix from a shared sip of soda pop or even a dose of vegetable oil. They described the device, the first fuel cell that produces electricity with technology borrowed from the biological powerhouses that energise people and other living things on Earth, here at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS)...