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Human power generation - or how to turn the world greener !

Jose Vaz Pinto on April 21, 2008 | 887 Views

Innovators company Potenco, developed the Pull-Cord Generator (PCG), used as the power supply by "the one-laptop-per-child project".

It's a new approach to human power generation that, conveniently spread across the world, could create enormous oportunities developing new products based on the PCG !
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The expected results are very broad - it can help many people switching on a light for the first time, or reduce the number of disposable batteries, and expand cell phone accessibility in energy excluded parts of the world.

Other contributions expected are to drop in 1% the green house gas emissions and help to build a healthier, greener, more productive world – powered by you !

 

Well, I feel great about this innovative product, you can visit on:

http://www.potenco.com/ 

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