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Methane Generation Biology
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Interspecies
Hydrogen Ion Transfer
or, Good Neighbors Getting Along |
Methane generation, while a complicated
process, all boils down to many bacteria cooperating. Long before
organism used oxygen, “bugs”, including methanogens, were hard at
work taking advantage of any food or energy source available. Where
does a methane bug get its food? It eats the excrement of its
neighbor. The stable anaerobic system depends on symbiotic
biological relationships like this.
Large numbers of different types of bacteria
are present in a digestion vessel. Typically, they are divided into
three groups. See Biogasworks (http://www.biogasworks.com/Index/AD
Intro.htm)
for more discussion. Anaerobic system organisms are generally
categorized as:...
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