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Soap-powered fuel cell. Sort of.

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First it was that fuel cell that could be powered by white wine, now it’s a fuel cell made by a company called Millennium Cell that uses borax, one of the main ingredients in laundry detergent, as its source of energy. Their prototype fuel cell is about the same size as the batteries used in laptops, cellphones, and PDAs, but can provide up to four times the power, so you could have a phone with 12 hours of talk time and a month of standby.

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