Beer: the energy drink for bacteria
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From Times Wire Reports
Scientists and an Australian beer maker are teaming up to generate energy from brewery wastewater and bacteria.
The University of Queensland was given a $115,000 grant to install the experimental microbial fuel cell at a Foster’s Group brewery near Brisbane.
The fuel cell is a battery in which bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste such as sugar, starch and alcohol. The battery produces electricity and clean water, said Jurg Keller, the university’s wastewater expert.
