With all the poisonous batteries going into landfills and leaching toxic waste into our groundwater, this comes as a welcome advance.

Micro Fuel Cells Get Closer to Replacing Batteries.

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I was just thinking the other day, I wonder if garbage could eventually be burned so intensely it could generate energy. Well it seems this plasma could do the job. Certainly is a lot of garbage we could reclaim from landfills as an energy source.

Inhabitat » Plasma Plants Will Vaporize Trash While Generating Energy.