Earth’s climate is under a constant rate of degradation and this instability is rapidly leading us close to the Global Warming phenomenon that could one wipe off all life from our planet. In the continuing efforts to control the increasing hits on out climate, a team of researchers from the Arizona State University have found an all new method of extracting low cost and highly renewable energy.
The all new form of energy production has been achieved by programming a photosynthetic microbe that would make the organism enter a self destruct mode thus producing energy in return. The destruction of the microbe will make the energy extraction process simpler and quite inexpensive.
According to Roy Curtiss (Director, Biodesign Institute’s Center for Infectious Diseases),
“The real costs involved in any biofuel production are harvesting the goodies and turning them into fuel. This whole system that we have developed is a means to a green recovery of materials not requiring energy dependent physical or chemical processes.”
Prof. Roy Curtiss is an integral part of the ASU team that has been working on a new type of bacteria, called cyanobacteria, which falls in the class of photosynthetic microbes. This new kind of organism is currently being studied by the ASU team that will then try to convert the microbe into a source of renewable energy.
The cyanobacteria has multi layered protective outer membranes, that enable the bacteria to live in the most inhospitable environments on the planet and extracting energy from such microbes via the new procedure could be real inexpensive.
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