Microbiology Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Geobacter Microbe Produces Electricity From Mud and Wastewater https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:04:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4294 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/geobacter-electricity-20090812/feed/ 1 4294 Scientists Developing Artificial Leaves to Produce Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chlorosome-artificial-leaf-20090715/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/chlorosome-artificial-leaf-20090715/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:49 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4053 Mimicking nature has been man's dream since he tried inventing the airplane, and even earlier. Mimicking a leaf for obtaining energy from the Sun has been even more challenging than learning to fly, though, until now, nobody succeeded imitating the evolution or creation or whatever our nature is made of.

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