{"id":719869,"date":"2010-04-20T01:45:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/us-navy-eyes-microbial-fuel-cell-powered-by-mud-feasting-bacteria\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T01:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:45:47","slug":"u-s-navy-eyes-microbial-fuel-cell-powered-by-mud-feasting-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/719869","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy eyes microbial fuel cell powered by mud feasting bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/04\/20\/geobacter_WqaEw_69.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"geobacter\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Fuel cell to be used to power a small robotic watercraft. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onr.navy.mil\/\">Office of Naval Research<\/a> is trying to use a new microbial fuel cell that runs on mud to power a small robotic watercraft. The Navy has been using small microbial fuel cells to power sensors and now the goal is to develop a larger version that can power a watercraft. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Navy is working with researchers at the University of Massachusetts on a microbe called Geobacter, which is highly efficient in generating electricity. The team is also planning to showcase the new fuel cell at the Pentagon\u2019s Earth Day event this year. <\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/19\/u-s-navy-targets-microbe-that-feasts-on-mud-for-new-fuel-cell\/\">Gas2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Fuel cell to be used to power a small robotic watercraft. The U.S. Office of Naval Research is trying to use a new microbial fuel cell that runs on mud to power a small robotic watercraft. The Navy has been using small microbial fuel cells to power sensors and now the goal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31gN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}