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What about bacterial electricity for cars?

by Guest57698  |  earlier

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Instead of developing large power plants that cost millions and destroy more environment, wisdom tell us to find a way where everybody could store and produce its own energy for its own need without relying on the national energy network that also cost billions to built and maintain.

Such solution already exist, it is called Bioelectricity. Its concept is simply, built bacterial bath of Escherichia Coli bacteria that transform sugar into electricity.

How it works:

The E. Coli transform sucrose into carbonic gas and water by producing electricity. It has a 70% chemical conversion ratio and a 40% electrical conversion ratio (if put in a medium solution that ease the travel of electrons inside the bath). Each bacteria can produce 48 Faraday per mole of sucrose. So a volume of 1cm3 that could contain about 100 billions of bacteria could produce 2/10 watt.

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  1. This looks to be a  idea worth looking into, why  do electric cars need to recharge because if an alternator was put in to charge the battery while running,there would no need for outside charging of the power cell, we already use this in fuel powered cars so why not electric cars.


  2. Wouldn't that be great ... NOT!

    What they want to do is use a bacteria that is deadly to people to eat sugar and produce CO2.  What do you think "Carbonic gas" IS?

    Let's not use oil, let's use SOMETHING WORSE!!!

    Bad idea.  Really bad idea!

  3. Please post the URL that is promoting this idea and the physics that allow this to happen.  Right now I think that this is a bit of a fairy tale.

    sirmrmagic -- sorry, not a possibility.  You can't get something for nothing.  Using a battery to run an engine requires electricity be used up.  You can only recover some electricity you have used to run your engine.

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