Comments on: Electricity-Producing Bacteria From Massachusetts http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/22/electricity-producing-bacteria-from-massachusetts/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: James Wimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/22/electricity-producing-bacteria-from-massachusetts/#comment-162497 Wed, 22 May 2013 18:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51987#comment-162497 “Maybe we should just stick to the trustworthy and cheap renewables we have today.” The current returnables portfolio has big holes, like despatchability, cheap storage and liquid fuel for aircraft and ships. It’s either chemical engineering to get to synfuel, or clever bugs. We definitely need this sort of thing.

What’s nice with the process reported here is that it actually sequesters carbon from the atmosphere into microbe mass.

]]> By: arne-nl http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/22/electricity-producing-bacteria-from-massachusetts/#comment-162478 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:44:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51987#comment-162478 We already got electricity producing fish. That didn’t got out of hand ;)

]]> By: Joe http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/22/electricity-producing-bacteria-from-massachusetts/#comment-162477 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:42:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51987#comment-162477 “. . . reducing organic carbon compounds with a graphite electrode like iron oxide or gold to serve as the sole electron acceptor.”

What does this mean?

You need proofreaders. This happens all the time.

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