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A team of researchers (nhà nghiên cứu) from England seems to have developed a new clean

energy fuel (nhiên liệu năng lượng sạch) cell that apparently can convert human waste into electricity and can be used to power entire households in the near future. A project dubbed ‘pee power’ was first trailed publicly at Glastonbury festival two years ago, where scientists showed ‘pee’ can generate (tạo ra) a steady (ổn định) trickle (dòng chảy nhỏ giọt) of electricity. As of now, it could power mobile phones (điện thoại di động), lightbulbs, and robots. Now, the project will be moving onto houses. Apparently, the flow of urine (nước đái) from people coming into the urinal over five days at the festival enabled the generation of 300 watt-hours of electricity.

Dr. Ioannis Ieropoulos, from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, said (via) to Daily Star, “To put that in perspective, I could power a single one-watt lightbulb for 300 hours, or 10 lightbulbs for 30 hours.” The invention (phát minh) is based on microbial fuel cells and the battery-like blocks are filled with a colony of tiny living creatures called microbes. The microbes feed on organic matter, which could be anything from grass to toenail clippings. They break down the matter into its chemical parts and multiply, generating tiny amounts of electricity as well as clean wastewater.

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