{"id":126666,"date":"2021-08-23T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/purple-bacteria-turn-sewage-into-hydrogen-fuel"},"modified":"2021-08-23T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:23:15","slug":"purple-bacteria-turn-sewage-into-hydrogen-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/purple-bacteria-turn-sewage-into-hydrogen-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Purple bacteria turn sewage into hydrogen fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/purple-bacteria-turn-sewage-into-hydrogen-fuel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Purple is the new black.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Purple bacteria are poised to turn your toilet into a source of energy and useable organic material.<\/p>\n<p>Household sewage and industrial wastewater are very rich in organic compounds, and organic compounds can be very useful. But there\u2019s a catch: we don\u2019t know of any efficient way to extract them from the eww goo yet. So these resource-laden liquids get treated, and the material they contain is handled as a contaminant.<\/p>\n<p>New research plans to address this problem \u2014 and by using an environmentally-friendly and cost-efficient solution to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple is the new black. Purple bacteria are poised to turn your toilet into a source of energy and useable organic material. Household sewage and industrial wastewater are very rich in organic compounds, and organic compounds can be very useful. But there\u2019s a catch: we don\u2019t know of any efficient way to extract them from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}