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UK startup turns sewage into backup batteries with AI

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from TechRadar ·

Rheya Labs is developing sewage-based backup batteries that combine emergency power storage with machine learning to predict failures before pollution occurs. The startup aims to provide a sustainable energy solution while preventing environmental contamination. The technology is still in development with no commercial release date announced.

Meridian48 take
The concept is novel, but scaling sewage-to-battery tech and proving its reliability against conventional batteries will be the real challenge.
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