Monday, April 18, 2016

Bacteria powered solar panel



For the first time multiple biological solar cells have been connected together to form a bio solar panel, this is basically just a solar panel that creates energy from the photosynthesis of the bacteria as well as their respiratory activities. It has generated the most wattage of any other existing small scale bio cells at about 5.59microwatts which seems unimpressive at first but considering how small scale this setup actually is, compared to a standard solar cell/panel, it's actually quite impressive. The major benefit of a bio solar cell is that it removes almost all of the toxic components of your normal solar panel and replaces them with bacteria which then produce energy from the light from the sun. A major disadvantage to this technology currently is that the amount of energy produced by this type of solar panel is very small when you compare to standard solar panel. Now that [they] have been able to get a bio solar panel to work and produce power, regardless of how little it produces, it will now be possible for them to focus on improving the efficiency of the cells and the sustainability which could one day surpass the abilities of normal solar panels and give us a source of clean energy that eliminates all the toxic components and waste that are currently an issue in the world of solar energy.



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