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Thu 01 Jan 2009A bright idea for light in Africa
A NEW LOW-COST source of power is just around the corner: electricity from dirt. It sounds too good to be true, but a group of Harvard students have got together to make it happen and they already have working prototypes.
The beauty of the approach is that near free electricity can also be taken from soil, manure, rotting fruit, coffee grounds and other sources, explain Hugo Van Vuuren and Alexander Fabry, two of eight founding partners in the project, Lebone Solutions.
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