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Classic classroom toy inspires scientists to build electricity generator | The generator device generated an output of over 100 volts and worked for several days using only 100 ml water as fuel.


The generator device generated an output of over 100 volts and worked for several days using only 100 ml water as fuel.

Inspired by a science toy, researchers in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China, have developed an electricity generator that uses water as fuel. Scientists find inspiration in the most common things we see every day. Over 2,000 years ago, a Greek mathematician and physicist found inspiration in a bathtub and shouted Eureka to declare his discovery, a fundamental part of fluid mechanics today.

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