Microbial batteries could help Africans use soil to charge cell-phones

April 17, 2013
Ankur Sohanpal

Aviva Aiden, a doctor from Boston has figured out a way to use the microbes living in the soil as electricity generators, enough to charge a cell phone. This helped her get funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates’ Foundation. The pilot implementation of these batteries was done in Uganda, East Africa. Read more here.



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