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Biodiesel fuels mobile phones (well kind of)

By Dan on Thursday, 14th June 2007

And this press release just in folks – four Indian mobile phone base stations are being powered with biodiesel.

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Indian mobile operator Idea Cellular and the GSMA said the move ensures rural India more network coverage.

The fuel is produced from local restaurants’ cooking waste, the group claimed.

Tom Phillips, chief government officer of the GSMA, a trade association for mobile operators, said: “Exploring alternative power solutions, such as biofuels, is key to the development of cost-effective ways to extend mobile networks to the 20% of the world’s population that don’t have coverage today”

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