Taking the p*ss ... for energy

BusinessGreen staff
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Nigerian schoolgirls come up with a new way of producing power from urine. The Sceptic Tank investigates

Intros are particularly difficult for the Tank. So now we've got that first sentence out of the way, let's just skip onto the next bit, which is a lot of fun and may even contain some Bad Words, depending...

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