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Yessi Pratiwi — March 27, 2009 / 11:07 am
Bacteria. First you heard this word, the thought comes up through your mind can be vary. There may be a hate to bacteri because this little animal can cause disease. That’s true, but of course we can’t generalize bactery, as it depends on its kind.
Well, there are some bacterias that can work and help human to guard the environment. Even, we can lay on the green technology of environmental protection to them.
Actually, there is a big potential of bacteria in the fuel cell tecnology, as well as biofuel. Many scientists all over the world still working on this.
Let’s see what Kevin O’Connor working at. His team at University College Dublin, Ireland, was trying to find a way to convert cheap PET plastic bottles into something more valuable, because despite their ubiquity these bottles are rarely worth recycling commercially. They try the bacterial approach, and found strains of Pseudomonas soil bacteria near a PET bottle processing plant that feed on PET, and convert it into a more valuable polymer, PHA. Each bacterium gorges on PET to the point that it becomes 24% PHA plastic by volume.
Untill this way, is it too much if I call them the engineer bactery? What a great work Kevin Kevin O’Connor and the team has done!
Credit and Source : NewScientist
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