dung batteries

Yes! You heard me. Dung Batteries. I was watching the History Channel on All About Dung and apparently some Indian dude has found a way – and incidentally a never ending supply – to turn dung into a battery. Power up your mobile phone?

Niruttam Kumar Singh and Harvansh Yadav, a student-teacher duo from Gangagarh village in Bulandshaher, Uttar Pradesh, have made a cow dung battery that lights up electric bulbs, charges mobile phones and brings alive radios!

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