Billions of euros are spent treating trillions of litres of wastewater every year, consuming substantial amounts of energy. However, this wastewater could act as a renewable resource, saving significant quantities of energy ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 28, 2013
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EPSRC-funded scientists have developed a process using microbes which removes the need to use electricity to process sewage at treatment plants. The microbes can also be used to produce large quantities of valuable hydrogen ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 17, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Their idea is state of the art: Ten Bielefeld students have set their sights on constructing a bio-battery. They want to make use of the bacteria Escherichia coli to convert glucose into energy. With this project, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jul 17, 2013
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Researchers have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 20, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Iron is a critical part of many biological processes; however, it is often not biologically available or it can be toxic in high quantities. So, biological systems have developed intricate methods for its use ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 14, 2013
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To further the quest to harness microbes for beneficial uses, scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Purdue University developed a promising computational tool for analyzing microbial flux distribution ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 11, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 25, 2013
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(Phys.org)—University of the West of England scientists have unveiled a robot that uses an unusual source of power - human poo.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 29, 2012
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An unexpected source of new, clean energy has been found: the Plant-Microbial Fuel Cell that can generate electricity from the natural interaction between living plant roots and soil bacteria. The technique already works ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 23, 2012
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There are approximately one trillion quintillion microbial cells on this planet. That's more than the number of stars in the known universe!
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 22, 2012
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