Transporting methane from gas wellheads to market provides multiple opportunities for this greenhouse gas to leak into the atmosphere. Now, an international team of researchers has taken the first step in converting methane directly to electricity using bacteria, in a way that could be done near the drilling sites. “Currently, we have to ship methane via pipelines,” said Thomas K. Wood, holder of the biotechnology endowed chair and professor of chemical engineering, Penn State. “When
Microbial fuel cell converts methane to electricity
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