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Researchers Create Fuel Cell Powered by Rat’s Blood

Photo via likecool.com French researchers have created a fuel cell powered by rat blood that is more powerful and smaller than current pacemaker batteries. While this is not the first glucose-powered fuel cell, it is the first one to actually work inside a living body. The device was housed inside the rat for 11 days, and accessible via wires which stuck out the rat’s neck. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ready To Wean Off Oil Yet? DIY Fuel for $1 Per Gallon

Josh Tickell’s documentary “Fuel” available on DVD June 22. Since Earth Day, we’ve been watching gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, with daily dispatches relaying the horrors. So if the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster isn’t enough to motivate you off oil, maybe discovering more about the alternatives will. Just in time, the Sundance Festival winning film, Fue l , is coming to DVD on June 22. Director Josh Tickell now offers DIY details on making al… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ready To Wean Off Oil Yet? DIY Fuel for $1 Per Gallon