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Small-Scale Sugar-powered Generator?
By Ashley Hammell on Jan. 23, 2008 at 10:43 p.m.
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By a Malawian, for Africans--converting sugar and yeast to power?

Saw this on the boingboing.net stuff blog, wondered if anyone else had heard anything about it. Apparently it's an invention by Dr. Cedrick Ngalande in Malawi, that converts sugar and yeast into power to charge cell phones, or run computers.

http://www.afrigadget.com/2008/01/17/dr-ngalandes-sugar-and-yeast-power-generator/

Has anyone heard about this Afrigadget initiative? And is this a reasonable power source?


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By Ross Nicols on Jan. 24, 2008 at 3:19 p.m.
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Sugar and yeast make alcohol and during the process the solution expands and gives off CO2 which he, apparently is harnessing by releasing it through a valve. Sounds reasonable!

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