{"id":534095,"date":"2010-04-19T11:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6940"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:31:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:31:41","slug":"u-s-navy-targets-microbe-that-feasts-on-mud-for-new-fuel-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/534095","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Targets Microbe that Feasts on Mud for New Fuel Cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6942\" href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/19\/u-s-navy-targets-microbe-that-feasts-on-mud-for-new-fuel-cell\/navy-is-developing-a-fuel-cell-that-runs-on-mud\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6942\" title=\"Navy is developing a fuel cell that runs on mud\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/Navy-is-developing-a-fuel-cell-that-runs-on-mud.jpg\" alt=\"The U.S. Navy is developing a microbial fuel cell that generates electricity from the nutrients in mud and wastewater\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Think of it as <a title=\"Office of Naval Research press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/en\/Media-Center\/Press-Releases\/2010\/Microbial-Fuel-Cell.aspx\" >a battery that runs on mud<\/a>,&#8221; says the U.S. <a title=\"ONR home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/\" >Office of Naval Research<\/a>, and there in a nutshell is the concept behind the Navy&#8217;s <a title=\"gas2.0 article\" href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2009\/09\/01\/mud-loving-bacteria-increases-fuel-cell-output-by-800\/\" >new microbial fuel cell<\/a>. The Navy has been using small lightweight microbial fuel cells to power sensors (to track sea turtles, for example) and now its goal is to develop one that is powerful enough to steer a small robotic watercraft.<\/p>\n<p>In a microbial fuel cell, organisms feed on available nutrients and generate an electric current as they metabolize the food. The Navy is working with researchers at <a title=\"U Mass geobacter research website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geobacter.org\/index.html\" >the University of Massachusetts<\/a> on a microbe called <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/08\/03\/researchers-coax-electricity-from-geobacter-super-microbes\/\" >Geobacter<\/a>, which is the most promising in terms of its efficiency at generating electricity. Strains found in the wild have demonstrated a knack for converting nutrients in mud and wastewater into electrical current, and researchers have developed a new strain that is eight times more efficient than others.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/19\/u-s-navy-targets-microbe-that-feasts-on-mud-for-new-fuel-cell\/#more-6940\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=6MamzYdKfYM:QOiRpeT6qDI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/6MamzYdKfYM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Think of it as a battery that runs on mud,&#8221; says the U.S. Office of Naval Research, and there in a nutshell is the concept behind the Navy&#8217;s new microbial fuel cell. The Navy has been using small lightweight microbial fuel cells to power sensors (to track sea turtles, for example) and now its goal [&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-534095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534095","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=534095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}