15 May, 2016 @ 10:42
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Andalucian entrepreneurs create device that can harvest electricity from plants

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THREE Andalucian entrepreneurs have taken biotechnology to potty new lengths with a battery that recharges in soil.

Pablo Manuel Vidarte, Rafael Rebollo and Javier Rodriguez’s Bioo converts energy created during photosynthesis in plants into electricity.

The device is a USB port hidden inside a stone that can be popped into a planter to harness energy from the soil and used to charge your phone – and that’s only one of many possible future applications.

Vidarte said: “We have used our prototypes until now to charge a mobile phone and now we are planning to sell them in a crowdfunding campaign. Our aim is not to raise a lot of money, now we just want the validation of a real market.”

The patented technology will first be tried out in Barcelona.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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