Informative Articles: Biology of Systems

Methane Generation Biology

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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