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Utilizing Bacteria for Alternative Energy

Innovation Overview Comment by Robb Flick: Joshua Chance

Fuel cell battery powered by bacteria:

· Two technologies available with membrane (Wang, et al., 2014) and without (Gupta, Bekele, & Ghatak, 2013)

· Compact size residential device and in series for supplemental power in homes

· Cartridge based cellulose (organic waste) tablets to feed bacteria

Relevance Comment by Robb Flick: Robb Flick

The relevance of alternative energy in the current market.

· Need for new technology (Bashar, 2012)

· Benefits for new technology (Mitbam, 2014)

Impact Comment by Robb Flick: Angelica Villarreal

Microbial fuel cells, have various advantages, disadvantages, and impacts. There are several different topic areas where microbial fuel cells can make an impact

· Nutrition (Bretschger, Osterstock, Pinchak, Ishii, & Nelson, 2009)

· Environment (Bretschger, Osterstock, Pinchak, Ishii, & Nelson, 2009)

· Infectious diseases (Bretschger, Osterstock, Pinchak, Ishii, & Nelson, 2009)

· Waste management (Bretschger, Osterstock, Pinchak, Ishii, & Nelson, 2009)

Marketing Comment by Robb Flick: Erin Dockerty

Alternative Energy is becoming an increasingly popular market:

· New ways to market (Schebesch, 2013)

· Successful Advertising (Maiorino, 2011)

· Customers’ attitudes toward Alternative Energy (Hill, 2015)

Economics Comment by Robb Flick: Daniel Flaherty

The economic significance of bacterium gets from the genuine certainty that bacterium zone unit misused by people amid a scope of supportive routes in which. Regardless of the real truth that some bacterium assume unsafe parts, such as exacting disease and ruining sustenance, the economic significance of bacterium incorporates every their supportive and hurtful angles. Economic significance of any creature refers to the benefits and disadvantages of that life form to nature, the people furthermore the environment. Microorganisms (bacteria), a being and tiny creature have the ensuing financial importance and as especially now as the scientist are trying to generate power from them.

Consequently the point of scientists is to build up an earth well-disposed bio-battery Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC), which specifically changes microorganisms into vitality. Batteries, for example, these work in the same route as ordinary batteries, however with one distinction. The MFC comprises of two different units, the anode and the cathode segments, much the same as the batteries now in current family utilize. A somewhat porous film differentiates the two ranges. Rather than customary batteries, be that as it may, there are microorganisms in the anode territory of the bio-battery rather than electrolytes.

These separate substrates, for this situation glucose, in a metabolic methodology. This produces electrons that in the wake of beginning from the anode are at long last conveyed in an outside circle to the cathode. The outer circuit is then the one with the battery-controlled application, for instance, for lights or little engines. Along these lines, microscopic organisms can create electric vitality. The bio-battery offers a show of points of interest. Because of their basic development they can be utilized as a part of locales where there is lack of power, for instance, for example, in creating nations. Leeway that the bio-battery has over other regenerative vitality sources, for example, sun oriented and wind force is that they are not reliant on the climate. On account of bio-batteries, the more support the microorganisms get the more vitality they deliver. Additionally, in principle microbes are an endless wellspring of vitality as they reproduce immediately when supplied with substrates.

Future Relevance

The technology has real world applications where power is needed in remote or hard to reach locations. Possible future applications include:

· Powering underwater monitors (weather buoys, Tsunami sensors, scientific monitors, and defense).

· Power to remote sensors or devices (scientific, defense, navigational, security, communication)

· BOD sensing (scientific monitoring for Biological Oxygen Demand)

· Hydrogen Production. (Vishwanathan & Siva Sankara Sai, 2009).

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