Department of Zoology,
University of Madras
Chennai, India
Vol.10
ISSUE 3 JUL - SEP 2012 - ISSN-0974-1550
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Readers,
Contents
The ever increasing global population needs more and more energy resources, but most of these resources are limited and exploited. Specifically, population growth is intensifying the demand for consumption of nonrenewable energy sources such as oil, coal and natural gas. The imbalance in the environment further worsens the impacts of climate change and lead to depletion of natural resources. Sustainability and sustainable development may therefore help to overcome the demand of non renewable energy by the production of biofuels such as bioelectricity, biogas, etc.
Besides, new emerging technologies are underway to produce energy from wastes without exploiting the fossil fuels. Energy from wastes is a recent technique to produce electricity directly through combustion, or produce a combustible fuel commodity, such as methane, methanol, ethanol or synthetic fuels by microbial fuel cells. This issue contains article on tetrodotoxin producing bacteria isolated from pufferfish, electricity from biofuel wastes, and methane gas production by electricity through the microbes. Other fascinating informations on microbes are also included.
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