“The phones are cheap now, but the challenge is getting the charge. People often must walk many kilometers to a place where they can access electricity. Then they may have to pay from 35 to 50 US cents to charge the cell phone, plus there’s the danger in reaching the charging location,” Harmon from Uganda.
The Solution is from Tellurex Corporation, they unveiled a practical solution that combines native cooking fires and thermoelectric science to recharge cell phones and other portable electrical devices in remote villages and huts around the world.
The company conducted a live demonstration at the RedLine exhibit using a fully discharged cell phone and a common teakettle with an implanted high performance Tellurex thermoelectric module and a USB port. After less than two minutes atop a modest fire, the common teakettle had become an electric generator, enabling a Tellurex engineer to boot up the dead phone and place a call to a spectator, who was chosen at random. Meanwhile, the teakettle-generator also began to boil and sterilize water.
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The Solution is from Tellurex Corporation, they unveiled a practical solution that combines native cooking fires and thermoelectric science to recharge cell phones and other portable electrical devices in remote villages and huts around the world.
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