Microorganism Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:54:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Glycerin Can Finally Be Used in The Biofuel Production Process https://www.greenoptimistic.com/glycerin-biofuel-production-20100104/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/glycerin-biofuel-production-20100104/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:54:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6044 Glycerin is the most important component in many of the products we use, from soap to cosmetics, foods and pharmaceuticals. We even use it for biofuel production, algae growth and fuel cells. But it seems that in this moment glycerin really represents an issue as the large quantity developed by biofuel refineries cannot be assimilated by the market. The excess glycerin is incinerated on the market or illegally disposed.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/glycerin-biofuel-production-20100104/feed/ 1 6044 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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