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Modern MacGyver: The Dirt Battery

Almost 2 billion people have no access to electricity. Solar power has become more common in the past 20 years, but it can't be active 24 hours a day or in cold climates. Hugo Van Vuuren and his colleagues at Harvard University wanted to develop a new energy source usable anytime, anywhere. They revived an 80-year-old idea, combined it with a type of equipment available all across the planet, and developed a battery powered by the microbes in dirt. Original Program Date: June 3, 2010 HUGO VAN VUUREN Research Fellow Hugo Van Vuuren helped launch The Laboratory at Harvard, a new platform for idea experimentation in the arts and sciences. Born and raised in South Africa, his endeavors and research focus on Design with Africa and the intersection between technology, design and innovation. Van Vuuren cofounded Lebone, a social enterprise working on off-grid technologies and he works with Le Laboratoire, an experimental art and design center in Paris. A Fellow at The Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Van Vuuren was selected as a 2009 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, a TED2010 Fellow, and a 2011 Student Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He and his co-founders won the 2009 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award for their dirt-powered battery design. The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for all the latest from WSF. Visit our Website: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/ Like us on Facebook:   / worldsciencefestival   Follow us on twitter:   / worldscifest