Fuel from food waste: bacteria provide power »
Posted By _kam0_ 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyResearchers have combined the efforts of two kinds of bacteria to produce hydrogen in a bioreactor, with the product from one providing food for the other. This technology has an added bonus: leftover enzymes can be used to scavenge precious metals from spent automotive catalysts to help make fuel cells that convert hydrogen into energy.





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