Hungry bacteria can extract energy from sewage


Sewage contains a source of energy that can be harvested by using hungry bacteria, researchers from Ghent University in Belgium have discovered.“The levels of organic matter in sewage are too low to be directly recovered. We investigated how we can use bacteria to capture this material,” said one of the researchers Francis Meerburg.

“We periodically starve the bacteria, in a kind of ‘fasting regimen’ Afterwards, waste-water is briefly brought into contact with the starved bacteria which are gluttonous and gobble up the organic matter without ingesting all of it,” Professor Nico Boon said....Read More

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