Microbes Make Wind Power Possible

June 05, 2009

I want to point you to a news story, Discovery tech writer Eric Bland published on the Discovery News site back in April. It has to do with a microbe that, in the natural world, consumes electrons emitted by bacteria and emits methane. Scientists think that the microbe, Methanobacterium palustre, could be used to consume excess electricity generated from renewable sources, such as wind, and emit methane that could be used to power a fuel cell or could be stored chemically until it's needed later.

Read Microbe-Powered Fart Machine Stores Energy for more details. It just goes to show that there's more than one way to make renewable energy work.