Bio Gas Fuel Cells Run On Waste Products and are essentially “GREEN” in the utmost sense since they take advantage of using what is otherwise unused. Biogas fuel cells essentially “clean” in some regards the waste in waste water treatment plants and in this process an electric current is created which can be harnessed as useable power.Bio Gas Fuel Cells Run On Waste Products and are essentially “GREEN” in the utmost sense since they take advantage of using what is otherwise unused. Biogas fuel cells essentially “clean” in some regards the waste in waste water treatment plants and in this process an electric current is created which can be harnessed as useable power.
Initially conceived as an off shoot of the technology featured as part of the Apollo Space Missions, fuel cells take advantage of a chemical reaction (i.e., non-combustion) in which an electric current is produced.
Now fast forward to 2012, dozens of waste water treatment plants are being retrofitted and redesigned as Bio Gas Fuel Cells which produce electricity to power their own operations. Fields of biogas creating algae are being grown in the Arizona Desert and in other places around the planet. This biogas can be chemically “perfected” to run certain types of fuel cells. Hence, we have what can be viewed as a truly renewable energy source. In this scenario, I believe fuel cells rank well as a true green energy solution.
Could the traditional oil/gas fields worldwide be replaced by “new fields” which produce a new fuel type created in abundance by biofuel producing algae? Time will tell.
