R&D Mag – Engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) 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 developed at OSU 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.
The findings are published in Energy and Environmental Science. more> http://tinyurl.com/d24vuts
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