SATUI, Indonesia (Kyodo) Takuo Shigehisa loves to cook, and tempura is one of his favorite dishes.
But the 53-year-old Shigehisa never expected that his love of cooking would lead him to discover a technology that applies the same principle that makes tempura crispy to transform low-grade Indonesian brown coal into a viable source of electrical power generation.
Shigehisa made his discovery in 1993 after experimenting on how to reduce water content in brown coal.