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A University team from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

University of Lethbridge Sponsors

Our Project: The BioBattery

Our BioBattery, made from photosynthetic bacteria will be able to produce energy and it's own food by converting carbon dioxide into water, oxygen and sugars, making it an indefinitely running sustainable energy source. It's ability|

to use atmospheric means it will be able to create energy while REMOVING it from the atmosphere, making it a carbon negative fuel source, something that is going to be necessary to solve the world's energy crisis. Because our BioBattery will be made from a cyanobacteria, it will also be able to fix Nitrogen, the process which is necessary to build amino acids and something humans cannot do on their own. These abilities, fixing carbon dioxide and nitrogen may even make the BioBattery useful for terraforming.

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-== Our Project: BoB, Bacteria over Batteries ==
-Electroplating is an expensive and energy intensive process; imagine if we could find a way to efficiently electroplate using nothing but sunlight and basic bacterial living requirements. This year our goal is to
+== University of Lethbridge Sponsors ==
-create a bacterial battery that uses photosynthesis to generate electricity.  Our main use for this
-bacterial battery will be to “bio-plate” metal ions as a substitute for electro-plating, a process that is
-taxing to the environment.  There are some sulphate-reducing bacteria that cause metals such as zinc to
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-aggregate into nanoparticles until they fall out of solution and we intend to exploit these pathways for our project.  We would like to design and compare a 3D scaffold based on bacterial micro compartments, to see if
-we can improve the efficiency of our battery as well.
-However, this is only the start.  If a photosynthetic bacterial battery can be produced, there is no
-limit to where we can take it.  After all, all you would need is carbon dioxide and water for the battery to function, and it would obviously produce oxygen as a product of photosynthesis. We’re thinking: Mars, anyone?
+== Our Project: The BioBattery ==
+Our BioBattery, made from photosynthetic bacteria will be able to produce energy and it's own food by converting carbon dioxide into water, oxygen and sugars, making it an indefinitely running sustainable energy source.  It's ability|[[Image:Group_Photo_1.png|200px|frame]] to use atmospheric means it will be able to create energy while REMOVING it from the atmosphere, making it a carbon negative fuel source, something that is going to be necessary to solve the world's energy crisis.  Because our BioBattery will be made from a cyanobacteria, it will also be able to fix Nitrogen, the process which is necessary to build amino acids and something humans cannot do on their own.  These abilities, fixing carbon dioxide and nitrogen may even make the BioBattery useful for terraforming.
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