One of the most frustrating factors of travel is the lack of electric power that is one of the most crucial elements of our existence. Anyone, who has ever traveled to a remote location, will tell you that, more often than not, the portable devices that are designed to help us stay in touch even from places where communication is almost near impossible, such devices turned out to be useless because of lack of power that would either operate them, or recharge their batteries.

However, all those worries are now soon going to fade away, with the introduction of an all new Backpack Power Plant, that has been designed and developed to generate an impressive 500 watts of electric power by harnessing water energy. The device’s creator, Bourne Energy, located in Malibu, California, claims that the Backpack Hydroelectric Power Plant can easily harness the energy of any natural source of running water, as long as the depth of the source is four feet.

This extremely useful device is expected to go into production very soon and as the company demonstrated a more tough version of this product, especially for military purposes at the the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, it stated that, the Backpack Power Plant will be available for $3,000 a piece. As far as the functions of the device is concerned, the civilian model will be able to create clean energy from a running water source at 7.5 feet per second. The military model on the other hand has been designed to provide its operators with multiple flow rates.

According to Bourne Energy,

“The BPP-2, which operates silently with no heat or exhaust emissions, is 40 percent less visible during operation and can also be bottom mounted to be totally invisible.”

Via Wired