Published on 01/17/2008
Dr. Cedrick Ngalande has come up with a Sugar And Yeast Power Generator which you can see in action in the video above. According to him, "The rotor moves slowly most of the times but does pick up at certain intervals. This process continues for many hours. Since the rotor is quite heavy (and hence more inertia) a small geared DC motor can be connected to the rotor to generate power for cell phones, $100 laptops, and other things in Africa. People can leave this thing to charge their phones/$100 laptops overnight.” Hopefully angel investors will step in and make this a reality, considering how developing countries that receive the XO laptop will need an affordable way to power it.