{"id":278,"date":"2006-03-14T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=278"},"modified":"2019-12-29T17:33:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T22:33:39","slug":"bug-guts-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/bug-guts-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug guts matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Roach writes for National Geographic<\/em> about research into the bacteria that lives in the guts of termites; the bacteria enable termites to digest wood by converting it to hydrogen.<\/p>\n

So here’s what’s cool: researchers speculate that if we can understand how the bacteria do this, we may be able to use that information to create a new energy technology. One of the researchers, Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley<\/p>\n

imagines a day when “little digesters” — a termite germ-derived technology — sit in people’s garages and process piles of woody waste to produce enough hydrogen to power cars and homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Off the grid and into the termite mound :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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