Bacterial Outer Space Generate New Energy Sources

The bacteria are usually found high above the Earth's orbit have been found in a river in England, and can generate electricity using a special battery called a microbial fuel cell (microbial fuel cell).

Mysterious organism is found in the mouth of the River Wear, at Sunderland. However, usually bacteria called Bacillus stratosphericus found 20 miles above the Earth. The scientists believe that these bacteria to the surface of the Earth's atmosphere through the cycle, which causes the water vapor rises into the stratosphere and then fall back.

Bacteria that double the power potential of other bacteria. Scientists from Newcastle University believe that they can be harvested and used to power electrical appliances in developing countries.

In a microbial fuel cell, these organisms produce carbon dioxide, protons and electrons when stored in solution without oxygen.

The liberated electrons to form negatively charged anode to the cathode while the positively charged proton. This produces two energy necessary to cause an electric current.

"What we are doing is deliberately manipulated to design a mixed microbial biofilm that is more efficient in generating electricity," said Grant Burgess, professor of Marine Biotechnology at Newcastle University.

"This is the first time an individual microbes studied and selected in this way. Finding Bacillus stratosphericus is quite surprising, but it shows the potential of this technique for the future. Somewhere out there there are billions of microbes that have the potential to generate power, "he added.

Burgess and colleagues study is publishing the findings at the American Chemical Society's Journal of Environmental Science and Technology explains, to select the species best of the bacteria, the scientists were able to create a biofilm-made, double the electrical output of microbial fuel cells of 105 watts per meter to 200 watts per cubic meter cubic.