Dec
31
2009
mad scientist
a look into electricity:
Apr
9
2008
Fuel for the Future – E. Coli
Randomly reading some articles on power engineering when I ran across this:
Fuel for the Future: Scientists believe deadly bacteria holds key to future energy source
“We have created a quintuple mutant… these five mutations have enhanced hydrogen production from formate 141-fold and have achieved the theoretical hydrogen yield (1 mol H2/mol formate). In addition, we have created a septuple mutant that increased hydrogen yield fivefold from glucose and improved hydrogen yield twofold from .65 to 1.3 mol H2/mol glucose.”
With today’s technology, Wood said that filling a cabinet-sized unit full of bacteria and sugar could be used to produce 1 KWh of power, enough to run a home with an operating cost of $6,000.
E. coli and sugar. What will they think of next?
Hopefully the e. coli won’t mutate into some strange variant outbreak…
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