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New Ultra-Efficient Urine Fuel Cell Produces Electricity at Unprecedented Rates

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 19:30:11 +0000

The dream of turning urine into something useful has seemingly been with humanity since ages. Now they turned into energy. A new type of bacterial fuel cell turns urine into electricity at unprecedented rates and with never seen before efficiency. The urine fuel cell has been designed at the University of Bath, Queen Mary University […]

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Electricity From Urine Generated by Bristol Toilet

Mila Luleva — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:51:29 +0000

A toilet that generates electricity from urine and stores it into a fuel cell has been put in use at the campus of University of the West of England in Bristol. We told you about these guys about two years ago, when they announced the development of a fuel cell, powered by urine, which can provide […]

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Stanford Microbial Battery Stores Electricity Generated From Sewage Water

Mila Luleva — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:29:30 +0000

In their search for alternative energy sources, scientists from Stanford University developed a mini power plant device, which uses microbes that are found in sewage systems. The study published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the potential of harvesting the electricity, which is naturally generated as these […]

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Bio-Battery Using E-Coli Bacteria Developed by Students

Mila Luleva — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:18:26 +0000

Students from Bielefeld engineered a bio-battery, which converts glucose into energy using Escherichia coli (E-Coli) bacteria. Their project aims to find an alternative energy source, which reduces environmental pollution caused by used batteries. If successful, the new bio-battery will enter one of the biggest and most important student competitions in synthetic biology: ‘international Genetically Engineered Machine competition’ […]

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Marshlands Produce Green Electricity Through New Plant-Microbial Fuel Cells

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:48:41 +0000

Fuel cells underneath the soils made up of interacting live plant roots and bacteria can generate green energy without negatively affecting other commodities and the environment in general as opposed to other green energy sources. A small scale Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell has already been tested to generate 0.4 Watts for every square meter of plant […]

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New UK-Led Project Aims to Combine Biofuel and Microbial Cell in Cheap Fuel Cells

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:16:57 +0000

Biofuel cells (BFCs) and microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are about to get a boost in efficiency thanks to a project aimed at creating hybrid electrodes. In this particular meaning, “hybrid” means that the UK-led project will combine inorganic with organic electrodes to make them more efficient and cheap, and avoid the use of platinum, nowadays […]

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Microbes and Saltwater Used to Produce Electricity from Wastewater and Waste Heat

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:15:21 +0000

The difference between saltwater and freshwater can produce electricity. Microbial fuel cells use bacteria to degrade organic matter to also produce energy. Great as they are, these two technologies have had limitations in the past, but now a team of scientists unite them in a system that eliminates most of their shortcomings. The team, led […]

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Bacteria Living in Stratosphere Could Make for Better Microbial Fuel Cells

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:07:58 +0000

Newcastle University researchers have discovered that Bacillus stratosphericus, a bacterium that usually lives in the stratosphere (as its name suggests) could be used to generate electricity in microbial fuel cells. It’s not that microbes hadn’t been used before this discovery – it’s the fact that this particular type of bacteria can double the output of a […]

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Students Harnessing Energy by Using Bacteria That Live in Soil

Mike Sandru — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:38:56 +0000

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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Whey Could Be Used as Power Source For Microbial Fuel Cells, Greek Scientist Discovers

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:41:14 +0000

Dr. Georgia Antonopoulou, a biochemical engineer from the University of Patras in Greece, has discovered that whey coming from cheese factories can be used by cultures of bacteria contained in microbial fuel cells to generate electricity. Whey is a lactose-rich organic material, and it is usually disposed.

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Microbial Fuel Cell Could Propel Navy Ships for Years, Feeding on Sea Microorganisms

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:35:17 +0000

The microbial fuel cell is meant to use naturally occurring fuels and oxidants in the sea to power ships, replacing batteries and fossil fuels.

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Geobacter Microbe Produces Electricity From Mud and Wastewater

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000

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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