Electric Oranges? Japan’s Researchers Test Device to Generate Power from Mikan Mandarin Fields

By Tsuyoshi Saito / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
12:36 JST,
October 17, 2024
YAWATAHAMA, Ehime — Shikoku Electric Power Co. and researchers from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and other organizations have begun tests to prove the possibility of “microbial power generation” in mikan mandarin orange fields in Yawatahama and Ikata in Ehime Prefecture.
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