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Bioelectricity: Discovery shows bacteria can be used for power (2005)
- nitin_flanker 11y agoToday, we are way more ahead than we are at once in 2005. I read, few month ago, an article on bionic leaf that breaks down the photosynthesis process to produce fuel and chemical. It also uses soil bacteria for the same.
- azinman2 11y agoWow, really impressive. Hopefully there's no downsides because that's quite the renewable energy source! Even if its relatively minor, if its even 1% of a metropolis's power then why not go for it if its also treating the sewage at the same time!
- dnautics 11y agoThis is not new. Orianna bretschger has process scale microbial fuel cells cleaning sewage and generating power, in operation for example at whitelabs brewers yeast repository in California
- kasparsklavins 11y ago"The Matrix". anyone?
- ZeroFries 11y agoCould you use the gasses released by fermentation to power turbines, or would the amount of power generated not be worth it?