New fuel for Africa’s cellphones
By Bulletz. Filed in Practical Tech, Uncategorized |
Does it strike anyone else as weird that Africa is worried about this new fuel for their GSM phone systems? I think it is, especially when a good portion of that country doesn’t even have electricity. Why would they worry about having an alternative source of energy centered around cellphones of all things?
According to reports found on Cnet and MSN, Nigeria will be the first to get this palm and pumpkin power boost. The funny part is that only a quarter of Nigeria actually has power to begin with. I don’t know about you, but I surely think that they should be more worried about getting power to those who are in need.
Rural areas in emerging economies, where most new mobile-phone subscribers come from, are often not connected to the electricity grid, which means the base stations to connect mobile-phone users to the network are powered by generators.cnet
