An Ohio based NanoLogix, Hubbard made an interesting announcement. According to him, he has created hydrogen from microbes and generated electricity. On the other hand, hydrogen has effectively powered a generator of 5.5 KW, which in turn electrified several strings of 100 watt bulbs.
Hydrogen is unable to directly power generator. It is fed into fuel cell that strips electrons and power up the electrical appliance. Company told that hydrogen is mainly harvested from the sugar in wastewater. Entire process is worked out by the Environmental engineering at Gannon University’s professor, Harry Diz. He is also the developer of Nanologix Bioreactor.
Interestingly, NanoLogix also serves national defence and medical community. You would be astonished to know that microbes are also source of some great energy. They usually take sugar or some other matter and transform into methane, alcohol or other semi-conductor materials.
According to NanoLogix, harvesting electricity from tiny microbes is really something new. At Stanford University, James Swartz has made a microbe to utilize energy generated from sun for splitting water molecules and result in hydrogen.
In this technique, there is no need of sugar. But, microbes are unable to survive in the presence of oxygen. Thus, researchers are trying to insulate these microbes from the effects of oxygen. Fundamental Applied Biology is formed to back up the research made by Swartz.
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