Since we’ve been on something of a wastewater tear this week, let’s keep the ball rolling with a look at another form of new technology for harvesting renewable energy from the stuff. This one is from a company called Pilus Energy. The company has tweaked bacteria to come up with … [continued]
There is a new and efficient version of a machine that both processes sewage and makes electricity doing it in town […]
A team of researchers at Michigan State University has solved the mystery of how Geobacter bacteria found in soils manage to clean up nuclear waste and generate electricity at the same time. Going a step further, the team genetically engineered a Geobacter strain that does an even better job of it.
The U.S. military owns more stuff on wheels than any other single entity on the planet, and in the future more of those vehicles will be less reliant on fossil fuels. The latest maneuver is a test run of hydrogen fuel cells for the venerable Abrams tank. The Army has … [continued]
[social_buttons] This post was written by Paul O’Callaghan, founding CEO of the Clean Tech consultancy, O2 Environmental Inc. and lecturer on Sustainable Energy at the BC Institute of Technology. ‘Any plan to switch from gasoline to electricity or biofuels is a strategic decision to switch our dependence from foreign oil to … [continued]
