Incredible: Scientists Have Produced Electricity From Rotten Tomato!

Think twice before you throw away rotten tomatoes because it can be used to produce electricity, reveals a team from the American University.

However, the process of producing electricity from rotten tomato at a rate that would be able to replace existing energy sources will certainly take some time.

Scientists from The school of mining and technology from South Dakota have developed microbial electro-chemical cell that could turn particles of rotten tomato in electricity.

“Microbial electro-chemical cells use bacteria to break and oxidize organic material of the rotten tomato,” said Dr. Namit Shrest.

The electric power of the device is still small – 10 milligrams of tomato waste can produce 0.3 watts of power.

Given that Florida produces almost 400,000 tons of waste from tomatoes each year, it could produce a lot of energy – possibly enough to power the entire population in the long run.