Pilus Energy Demonstrates Its Reactor
Major Milestone Reached
CINCINNATI, OH. – April 26, 2010 – Pilus Energy announced today that its Chief Science Officer, Daniel J. Hassett PhD, demonstrated the unique power production of the Pilus Cell™.
The Pilus Cell™ is a bioreactor that harnesses genetically enhanced bacteria and harvests the direct current (DC) electricity, hydrogen gas, and water from their metabolism of organic compounds found in waterways, plant pulps, farm wastes, sewage, and other feedstocks.
A video of this breakthrough is located at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTC-R18hJQ
According to Jason E. Barkeloo, President, "The promise of extracting low-cost energy from ordinary waste molecules just came closer to reality today. By some estimates, there are four times ten to the eighteenth [4 X 10 to the 18th] Joules of energy stored in just US-based municipal wastewater on any given day. Compared to the Hiroshima bomb which released sixty times 10 to the twelfth [60 X 10 to the 12th] Joules of energy, there is a tremendous amount of stored energy in waterways, farm wastes, and plant pulps just waiting to be cleanly released."
Dr. Hassett commented, "Today's accomplishment caps a year of innovative hypothesis-driven scientific work. Since we are well underway scaling our reactor design, I am looking forward to reaching our next milestone and placing reactors in pilots."
About Pilus Energy
Founded in January 2009, Pilus Energy is developing alternative cleantech energy solutions based upon bacterial metabolism in the consumption of waste molecules and the production of electricity, hydrogen gas, and water. Pilus Energy intends to sell and license a low cost microbial fuel cell bioreactor technology, and sell the reactor consumables and accessories. Later, Pilus Energy intends to drive revenues from carbon credits generated by the deployed reactors and collect and monetize the usage data collected by the reactors.
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