National Academy of Sciences Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:21:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Microbial Fuel Cell Generates Hydrogen in Self-Sustaining Fashion https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microbial-fuel-cell-water-salinity-20110923/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/microbial-fuel-cell-water-salinity-20110923/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:21:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=20507 Penn State University researchers have recently demonstrated a system that produces hydrogen from water. Nothing fancy so far. What’s interesting is that they use salt water, tap water, bacteria and membranes to make the process self-powered. Unlike the experiments performed so far, where bacteria inside watery solutions could produce hydrogen only in the presence of […]

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