biopower Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:30:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The First Biologically Powered Microchip is Here https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biologically-powered-microchip/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biologically-powered-microchip/#respond Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:26:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=58480 Bio-technology has made a huge stride forward. Microchips are everywhere, from in our computers to in our pets (as RFID ear tags). The newest microchip technology, however, has been created by researchers at Columbia University. They have created a biologically powered microchip, using a chemical biological process to power an integrated circuit. To create the process, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biologically-powered-microchip/feed/ 0 58480 BioWave – free electricity from mimicking sea plants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biowave-free-electricity-from-mimicking-sea-plants-20080516/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/biowave-free-electricity-from-mimicking-sea-plants-20080516/#respond Fri, 16 May 2008 13:55:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=346 A long time ago, nature set its oceans and the living things in them. There were plants residing on the bottom of the ocean, plants who sway back and forth, as the water moves around them. So, BioPower Systems from Australia thought that making an under-ocean energy collecting system whose movement resembles with the one […]

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