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The plant lamp, a revolutionary invention for Peru
By Francisco Espinosa Bellido
The "plant lamp," as the invention is known, is a project by researchers at Lima's University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) that generates two hours of light per day through the use of a battery that collects nutrients released into the soil by plants during photosynthesis and converts it into electricity.
The initiative was carried out in Nueva Saposoa, a Shipibo-Conibo indigneous community of 173 inhabitants in the eastern Amazonian region of Ucayali, where 65 percent of the population lacks electricity, according to figures from the INEI statistics agency.
A team made up of seven professors and eight students worked on the "plant lamps" for four months and traveled twice to Nueva Saposoa: once to conduct research and a second time to deliver ten prototypes of the invention to the community.
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