Someone is going to start championing bacteria rights if we start enslaving them.
That’s pasta, right?
I can envision how it works—but how big a pot of spores is it going to take to power up a home or a car, much less a city.
Another bioenegry invention is using algae as fuel as it grows fast—but how many huge algae filled artificial ponds will it take to produce meaningful amounts of energy.
So far the scientists are having a hard time getting solar energy to a profitable energy source and they don’t have to have massive containers as the source is all around us.
What’s the end game for these bioenergy theories?
Interesting.
I dub it an “accordion motor”.
CC
That’s using the old noodle!
Let me know when they’re powering an automobile with it.
This won’t work in the summer time in Virginia because the bacteria would be perpetually “Humid”.
” They currently use regular Elmer’s glue “
I have some Gorilla super-glue gel ...
In the new study, his team has cobbled together devices that create lifting and piston-like motions by harnessing the natural tendency of the spores -- which are commonly produced in great quantities for probiotic supplements -- to expand and contract. The devices contain strips of plastic coated in the spores to make their reaction easier to harness. The devices already generate enough power to turn on light bulbs, so Sahin thinks that the technology could be used to power lights on devices that sit on the sea -- hydrothermal generators or oil rigs, for example.
The "devices", as the article calls them, perform a mechanical function (expand and contract) hence the application where they function as the switch to "turn on" a light bulb. They do not generate the power that lights the bulb, they simply force open or closed an exterior mechanical circuit that itself carries the power to the light bulb.
It's a big jump saying that a light switch could be turned into a hydrothermal generator.
The sun and the oceans are vast sources of energy which can be put to use by humans.
For instance, there is a thermal gradient (differential), between cold deep water, and warmer shallow water.
Sunlight can be precisely focused with mirrors, to capture maximum energy.
The biggest opportunity is battery technology, to store energy.
Hey lets make a Barometer Engine powered by changes in atmospheric pressure....
Oops I just blew my chance for a patent.