Biofilm Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:06:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The Right Bacteria in Drinking Water Keeps it Safe https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-right-bacteria-in-drinking-water-keeps-it-safe-20130814/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-right-bacteria-in-drinking-water-keeps-it-safe-20130814/#respond Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:06:18 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=40649 A research team from the University of Sheffield’s Faculty of Engineering made it their mission to study four bacteria known to exist in the city’s drinking water to in order to determine how to best keep the water supply safe while also limiting the need for chemical treatments. Their research involved biofilms – typically benign […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/the-right-bacteria-in-drinking-water-keeps-it-safe-20130814/feed/ 0 40649 Geobacter Microbe Produces Electricity From Mud and Wastewater https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4294 Derek Lovley, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently experimented with a microbe named "Geobacter", who loves to live in sediments and mud, and whose hairlike filaments can produce electricity from the muddy environment it loves to live in.

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