Friday 18 March 2016  Vitali Vitaliev, features editor Urine fuel cell gets more power with new design Using human waste as an energy source is not entirely new, and I get a reminder of that simple fact every time I visit the IET’s newly refurbished London offices in Savoy Place, off The Strand. While walking down Carting Lane towards the Thames, one cannot help noticing a somewhat weird-looking Victorian lantern which seems to be always on; be it night, evening or broad daylight. This is London’s last remaining sewage lamp, a late 19th century creation of Birmingham inventor Joseph Webb, … Continue reading E&T news weekly #86 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week