{"id":930,"date":"2004-06-20T00:27:17","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T05:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/getting-back-to-basics-with-the-microbial-fuel-cell\/"},"modified":"2004-06-20T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T05:27:17","slug":"getting-back-to-basics-with-the-microbial-fuel-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/getting-back-to-basics-with-the-microbial-fuel-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"getting back to basics with the microbial fuel cell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>researchers at penn state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engr.psu.edu\/NewsEvents\/newsdetail.asp?NewsDate=6\/15\/2004\" class=\"broken_link\">announced<\/a> significant progress in the development of a wastewater-to-electricity microbial fuel cell by skipping the expensive bits (polymeric proton-exchange membranes) in favor of cheap stuff (carbon paper).<\/p>\n<p>sometimes it&#8217;s good to think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/2001\/inventions\/basics\/inpot.html\" class=\"broken_link\">simple<\/a> &#8211; this team got a more than 5-fold increase in output by replacing the high-tech polymeric proton exchange membrane with carbon paper.  so sometimes &#8220;good enough&#8221; is &#8220;even better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>researchers at penn state announced significant progress in the development of a wastewater-to-electricity microbial fuel cell by skipping the expensive bits (polymeric proton-exchange membranes) in favor of cheap stuff (carbon paper). sometimes it&#8217;s good to think simple &#8211; this team got a more than 5-fold increase in output by replacing the high-tech polymeric proton exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}