virus Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 20 May 2016 20:44:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Algae-Based Water Filter Removes Even Viruses https://www.greenoptimistic.com/water-filter-viruses-mille-feuille-20160520/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/water-filter-viruses-mille-feuille-20160520/#respond Fri, 20 May 2016 20:44:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=59929 A new filter paper produced by Uppsala University scientists in collaboration with German virologists promises to improve water filtration by removing resistant viruses. Globally, many people lack access to safe drinking water, and being that water-derived infections is a global cause for mortality, microorganisms that are resistant to disinfection must be removed. Although water-derived deaths […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/water-filter-viruses-mille-feuille-20160520/feed/ 0 59929 MIT Seeks Federal Funds for Developing Possibly Hazardous Virus Battery https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-hazardous-virus-battery-20090403/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-hazardous-virus-battery-20090403/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:12:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3256 Viruses seemed like a frightened enemy that kept standing in our way for the past... million years. Although they have their qualification and role in the ecosystem, we seem to hate viruses and only associate them will our colds, hepatitis, and other illnesses. Not for a moment we could think of them as of a power source.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-hazardous-virus-battery-20090403/feed/ 1 3256 MIT Using Viruses To Create Power In Batteries https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-using-viruses-to-create-power-in-batteries-20080210/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-using-viruses-to-create-power-in-batteries-20080210/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:21:43 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/10/mit-using-viruses-to-create-power-in-batteries/ MIT researchers have developed a new method of building batteries, solar panels and transistors by using… viruses! They announced the discovery of a new way of making the nanomaterials by using viruses as microscopic components. These viruses, inoffensive to the human body, were created to serve as microscopic assembly blocks. Initially, they were used for […]

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