electricity from sewage Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:47:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 EcoBot III Cleans Sewage Water Powered by Human Waste https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ecobot-3-sewage-clean-20121130/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ecobot-3-sewage-clean-20121130/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:47:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29145 A robot that cleans human waste from wastewater was invented by a team of researchers from Wessex Water and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in England. The robot called EcoBot III contains microbial fuel cells and uses biomass to produce electricity, while removing the waste. The robot is a real breakthrough in energy saving from wastewater […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ecobot-3-sewage-clean-20121130/feed/ 0 29145 Sewage Power Plants Could Produce 20 Times More Electricity Thanks to New Discovery https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sewage-plants-electricity-production-20100722/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sewage-plants-electricity-production-20100722/#respond Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:25:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8637 Sewage treatment plants represent an interesting source of electricity. Oregon State University (OSU) have studied and developed a new type of coating that, if applied on the positive electrodes of microbial electrochemical cells used in such plants would raise the electricity production by about 20 times.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sewage-plants-electricity-production-20100722/feed/ 0 8637 Indian Students Develop Bio-Cell to Clean Sewage Water and Generate Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/indian-students-develop-bio-cell-to-clean-sewage-water-and-generate-electricity-20091120/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/indian-students-develop-bio-cell-to-clean-sewage-water-and-generate-electricity-20091120/#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5429 A group of students at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur have developed a bio cell(battery) that can be used to treat sewage water and generate electric energy, being a perfect solution to combat the water and energy crisis.

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