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New fuel-cell designs overcome this

A new microbe-powered fuel-cell design can extract up to 99% of the available hydrogen from biological compounds—using microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) to enable microbes to break down organic materials completely to just water, CO2 and hydrogen.

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