Sugar-fuelled battery soon to juice up portable electronics


	Sugar-fuelled battery soon to juice up portable electronics

Jesiege

3-28-2007 12:10 PM

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sugar, battery, electronics, technology

Jesiege says:

Great, now me and my electronics can refule on an ice cold coke

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