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Microbial fuel cells: The hits just keep on coming... now with poopy-power!

You really wouldn't think that there would be so many ways of creating energy from a substance that supposedly had most of it's energy extracted through digestion... but, in addition to urine, we can make electricity from poop too! The secret is in the microbial bacteria. NASA is working on a technology that converts the space-waste of the astronaut's into electricity via microbial fuel cells. The fuel cell relies on Geobacter microbes which generate electricity while they decompose organic material. Pennsylvania State University is using a ... Read more →

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