Students in the EPICS club (Engineering Projects in Community Service) at North Penn High School are researching alternative fuel sources.

EPICS club members, Brian Pilat and Matt Shaw, have a desire to create an energy systems that provides power to small communities in developing nations, areas in states of emergency where power has been lost or even in remote locations off of the power grid.

One of the directions they have decided to begin their research is with the ability to provide power for small electronic devices such as cell phones and radios.

To start, they are looking at a small device that takes salt water and converts it to electricity.  Once they have analyzed and characterized this device, they will work on developing their own MAFC with the ultimate goal of producing a higher power output per unit size.