electrons Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:23:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Electron-eating Bacteria Open Up New Possibilities For Electricity Generation https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electron-eating-bacteria-open-new-possibilities-electricity-generation-20140721/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electron-eating-bacteria-open-new-possibilities-electricity-generation-20140721/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:22:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=48604 Geobacter and Shewanella bacteria have become popular over the past decade not only because of their food source- naked electrons, but also because they have incredible electron transfer capabilities. These organisms have huge potential for alternative electricity generation, and as it turns out, they are not at all one of a kind. Various research teams have used […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/electron-eating-bacteria-open-new-possibilities-electricity-generation-20140721/feed/ 0 48604 New Discovery: Generating Electricity With Ground Bacteria Shewanella https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-generating-electricity-with-ground-bacteria-shewanella-20091222/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-generating-electricity-with-ground-bacteria-shewanella-20091222/#respond Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:42:43 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5846 Bio-chemist David Richardson of the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom said that Shewanella is the ideal candidate for environmental-cleanup tasks as it lives in the underground: "Understanding their biochemistry could help to develop strategies to stimulate their activities [at the cleanup sites]."

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-generating-electricity-with-ground-bacteria-shewanella-20091222/feed/ 0 5846 World's Thinnest Superconductor Ever Created https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-thinnest-superconductor-ever-created-20090610/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-thinnest-superconductor-ever-created-20090610/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:34:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3722 Dr. Ken Shih and some of his physicist colleagues, have reported the development of the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, a superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/worlds-thinnest-superconductor-ever-created-20090610/feed/ 0 3722 Team Discovers what Once was Thought Impossible about Superconductors https://www.greenoptimistic.com/team-discovers-what-once-was-thought-impossible-about-superconductors-20080625/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/team-discovers-what-once-was-thought-impossible-about-superconductors-20080625/#respond Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:03:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=337 A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia, coordinated by Physics Assoc. Prof. Andrea Damascelli, has managed to develop a technique that controls the number of electrons from the surface of a high temperature superconductor. This procedure has been considered impossible for the last 20 years.

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