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Yay! Science!: Wine into water

Awesome.

Scientists and Australian beer maker Foster’s are teaming up to generate clean energy from brewery waste water — by using sugar-consuming bacteria…

The fuel cell is essentially a battery in which bacteria consume water-soluble brewing waste such as sugar, starch and alcohol.

The battery produces electricity plus clean water, said Prof. Jurg Keller, the university’s wastewater expert

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4 Responses to “Yay! Science!: Wine into water”

  1. Alex says:
    May 2, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    Science is fuckin’ A. And I say that as an English major.

  2. Andrew says:
    May 3, 2007 at 2:40 am

    Wow. That’s pretty cool. Does “brewing waste” include Foster’s lager?

  3. Gender Blank says:
    May 3, 2007 at 10:11 am

    Great. Now I’m gonna hafta start drinking beer again. The environment needs me!

  4. firefalluk says:
    May 4, 2007 at 8:11 am

    Andrew: that’s definitely included, along with the fourex

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