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Fuel Cell Treats Wastewater and Harvests Energy

Posted July 17, 2012 8:57 AM

From Scientific American:

A new microbial fuel cell creates energy during wastewater treatment and also vastly reduces the amount of sludge produced. Israel-based company, Emefcy, named as a play on the acronym for microbial fuel cell (MFC), starts with the same principle as most wastewater treatment--water is aerated so bacteria in the liquid break down organic material in a closed series of containers known as a bioreactor.

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