What if those old carrots you never got around to eating could be a renewable energy source, rather than something messy you had to clean out of your refrigerator bin? That’s the basic idea — though on a much smaller scale — behind Carvey Maigue’s new AuREUS system. Maigue, a 27-year-old engineering student at Mapúa University in the Philippines, just won the James Dyson Award sustainability prize for his invention.
Engineering Student Turns Food Waste Into Renewable Energy
Teresa Bergen, Inhabitat
Mon, 11/23/2020 - 10:30am
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