energy from dirt Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:38:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Students Harnessing Energy by Using Bacteria That Live in Soil https://www.greenoptimistic.com/harnessing-energy-bacteria-living-soil-20100613/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/harnessing-energy-bacteria-living-soil-20100613/#respond Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:38:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7986 Until now, researchers and scientists have discovered how to harness solar energy, biofuel, hydropower and wind power but a new renewable energy source could be right under our feet. A group of Harvard students use small currents created by bacteria living in soil to collect and harness that energy in a microbial fuel cell (MFC).

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