Electric mushroom producing 65nA is the future of renewable energy - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 02:49:00 pm
content: I thought about posting this in renewable energy but it's really more dodgy technology than anything.https://www.ecowatch.com/bionic-mushrooms-renewable-energy-2618702145.htmlhttps://www.stevens.edu/news/bionic-mushrooms-fuse-nanotech-bacteria-and-fungiQuoteCountdown to Kickstarter campaign in 3....2.....All it needs is IoT connectivity, AI and blockchain!

author: Raj
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 03:02:06 pm
content: The future, my friend, seems to be, people getting high on electric mushrooms

author: LapTop006
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 03:18:19 pm
content: We've got to build up to the energy system from "The Matrix" somehow.

author: GeoffreyF
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 03:22:50 pm
content: Actually the research at Stevens is legit. The other thing is a little bit over the top from there.

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 03:29:41 pm
content: Why waste precious coins and nails on fruit (childhood fruit or potato battery) when you can use worthless graphene from a worthless 3d printer on a button mushroom so that you can then produce 1/100 the amount of energy? Oh, and the bacteria.This solar mushroom invention makes my skin itch.

author: chris_leyson
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 03:52:42 pm
content: QuoteWhat with potatoes and lemons that would give "power plant" a new meaning.

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 06:59:51 pm
content: Organic energy will probably become a real thing, but it would be more like a bioreactor or microbe fuel cell. Having the bacteria on another organic substrate just seems like a stupid idea. Ideally, the substrate would be sandwitched conductors, and possibly have a method of delivering fuel to the microbes, or suspending it in a fluid. Like you know...a proper battery.

author: BrianHG
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 08:48:30 pm
content: This is a relevant example:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/need-a-laugh-see-the-self-drivingpowered-potato!-(this-is-serious-)/msg1450743/#msg1450743

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 09, 2018, 09:03:22 pm
content: Unlike that charming pet potato on wheels, this mushroom just sits around and sporulates from time to time.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2018, 02:49:34 am
content: Reminds me of the fat powered microbial fuel cell once on demo at the university I went to. It seems like a great idea - fat is about 50 times as energy dense as lithium batteries and there's no shortage of it in the US. Just one little problem - the demo unit was about the size of a few stacked CD cases but barely generates enough electricity to run a LCD clock. The power density would have to go up by several orders of magnitude to find practical uses.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2018, 11:55:44 am
content: Bio electricity is nothing new, I built a bull shit battery (well cow actually) in the sixties at school from an idea I got from a book that was a few years old.Just a few plates of tin separated by cow poo, enough power for a pea lamp to glow.Main drawback was the smell once it warmed up a bit.

author: Cyberdragon
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 15, 2018, 09:49:43 pm
content: Quote from: G7PSK on November 15, 2018, 11:55:44 amOh yes, any type of organic reaction for energy (whether fuel, heat, or electrical) is going to produce organic waste, which may be putrid. Disposing of the waste will be another problem to overcome. Of course, any remaining reactivity in the waste is lost efficiency, so the ultimate goal would be a waste substance that is pretty neutral (IDK if this is even possible).

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 18, 2018, 02:54:53 pm
content: Quote from: Cyberdragon on November 15, 2018, 09:49:43 pmBio gas is possibly that, you get methane gas plus solid fertiliser and liquid fertiliser both have very little smell (slightly of ammonia) There is a bio gas plant just up the road from me and they spread the residue on the fields around me. All proven technology and probably the way to go, takes farm animal and crop waste and turns it into gas and fertiliser also works with human waste.