Water-powered Mobile phone Charger

With MyFC PowerTrekk, your mobile phone power source no longer electric power, but the tap water, streams, even puddles. The tools that use micro fuel cell technology developed by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm that only requires water to recharge the phone battery up to 3 watts.

The MyFC PowerTrekk charger relies on fuel cell technology developed at KTH. (Picture from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/)

Anders Lundblad, a KTH researcher who makes MyFC, said that the charger was able to obtain power from both freshwater and seawater. "Our findings have great potential," says Lundblad. "Many areas that lack or do not have electricity, but increasingly important mobile phone functions, such as accessing weather information or make electronic payments."

An USB connector that connects PowerTrekk with mobile phones. When water is poured into the small metal discs of sodium silicide in the charger, then it will be removed hydrogen gas and combined with oxygen to convert chemical energy into electricity. This energy is enough to supply 25-100 percent of your iPhone battery capacity. In addition to the fuel cell, it has a battery charger lithium-ion power source that can be directly or as a backup.

The portable PowerTrekk only needs a little water to charge a mobile phone. (Picture from: http://www.albanytribune.com/)

Lundblad has done research on micro fuel cells and small flat Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells for more than 15 years at the Department of Applied Electrochemistry at KTH. He says the business vision behind MyFC is to commercialise fuel cell technology and contribute to the development of environmental technology.

"The launch of this charger is a strategic effort that fuel cells that the fuel cell can be accepted by the public," he said. "Right now our charger may still be considered expensive. But in the long run, when it reaches mass production, the price will go down." *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | SCIENCEDAILY | KORAN TEMPO 4209]

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