Energy: Generation of Electricity from Soil

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Volume 4, Issue 2 (2023)

Published Online

March-April 2023

Pages

348-349

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Abstract: Bioscience appears to point to a method of producing power from plants and bacteria found in the soil. We create electricity using hydroelectric plants, coal, fossil fuels, and nuclear power plants. Each approach has drawbacks such as water scarcity, inter-state conflicts, and pollution of the environment. Therefore the approach to produce power from bacteria that dwells under the soil is pollution-free and environmentally benign. Plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide from the environment to produce food in the form of carbohydrates and oxygen for human breathing. Microbes in the soil metabolise part of the organic materials that plants expel into the soil to produce hydrogen ions and electrons. Plants above the soil do photochemistry, whereas microbes below the soil perform electrochemistry, creating positive and negative ions. The goal of this research is to create electricity from soil utilising plant microbial fuel cells [PMFC] or bio-battery, which transform chemical energy from organic components in soil into electricity.