Point Source Power’s cheap, rugged fuel cells can provide
electricity where none exists.
In some parts of the developing world, people may live in
homes without electricity or toilets or running water but yet they own cell
phones. To charge those phones, they may have to walk for miles to reach a town
charging station—and possibly even have to leave their phones overnight. Now a
startup company spun off technology developed at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a simple, inexpensive way to provide
electricity to the 2.5 billion people in the world who don’t get it reliably.