{"id":526458,"date":"2010-04-13T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2010-04-13T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T23:00:27","slug":"golden-nanotool-harvests-electricity-from-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526458","title":{"rendered":"Golden Nanotool Harvests Electricity from Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8324\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/13\/golden-nanotool-harvests-electricity-from-algae\/stanford-researchers-coax-electricity-from-algae\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8324\" title=\"Stanford researchers probe algae for electricity\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Stanford-researchers-coax-electricity-from-algae.jpg\" alt=\"Stanford researchers harvest small electric current from individual algae cells using gold nanoscale probe\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>Researchers at <a title=\"stanford website\" href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/\" >Stanford University<\/a> have engineered an ultrasharp nanoscale electrode made of gold that can be used to harvest <a title=\"stanford press release on eurekalert.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2010-04\/su-srf041310.php\" >a small electric current from individual algae cells<\/a>.\u00a0 In experiments so far, the algae cells survive the intrusion, which could mean that larger electric currents could someday be drawn from entire algae colonies.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/13\/texas-am-university-exposes-algaes-secret-fossil-fuel-stash\/\" >Algae have been emerging as the biofuel heroes of a sustainable future<\/a> and the Stanford development could bring it to a new level, by bypassing the carbon footprint of harvesting plants and processing liquid biofuels.<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/13\/golden-nanotool-harvests-electricity-from-algae\/#more-8323\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Stanford University have engineered an ultrasharp nanoscale electrode made of gold that can be used to harvest a small electric current from individual algae cells.\u00a0 In experiments so far, the algae cells survive the intrusion, which could mean that larger electric currents could someday be drawn from entire algae colonies. Algae have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}