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Posted on 20/10/03

Two Alberta researchers shed light on electric idea

Canadian researchers have discovered a new way to generate electricity -- something that nobody in the scientific world has been able to accomplish since Michael Faraday in 1839.Even though the process is still barely more than a baby on the laboratory bench, Alberta-based scientists are already forecasting a day when the world will be full of cellphones without batteries and calculators powered by energy derived from the flow of pressured water through glass or silicon sieves.

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