Major
Advance Made in Generating Electricity From WasteWater
Engineers have
made a breakthrough in the performance of microbial fuel cells that can produce
electricity directly from wastewater, opening the door to a future in which
waste treatment plants not only will power themselves, but will sell excess
electricity.
The new
technology can now produce 10 to 50 more times the electricity, per volume,
than most other approaches using microbial fuel cells, and 100 times more
electricity than some.
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