This headline has been announced in various media, in fact they have titled things like energy from almost nothing or energy of the future is in the area or the energy of the future is in the air or eureka discover an enzyme capable of converting air into clean electricity.
This is true, energy can be obtained from the air by means of an enzyme, because there is good news and bad news, the enzyme is real and is capable of creating electricity, but to say that it does so from the air may be extremely generous, because the Enzyme can only use 0.00005% of the air we breathe, that's about one drop in a liter of water, one drop based on the standard size for drug application.
That very small part corresponds to the amount of hydrogen that is in the air that we breathe because that is the fuel that the enzyme needs to work, that would be the bad news and it is that it can extract energy from the air but not much, the good news is that It is real It is a work that researchers from the University of Monas in Australia have done and that has been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, they have shown that many bacteria use hydrogen from the atmosphere as a source of energy, they do so in poor environments in nutrients and that's thanks to the enzyme or enzymes called Huc.
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Las enzimas son moléculas orgánicas que actúan como catalizadores de relaciones químicas, es decir, aceleran la velocidad de reacción, son una herramienta que poseen determinadas bacterias, la bacteria estudiada se llama Mycobacterium smegmatis, esta bacteria puede convertir gracias a la enzima Huc el hidrógeno gaseoso en corriente eléctrica.
El trabajo significa que se pueden utilizar estas enzimas para crear auténticas baterías de enzimas para obtener energía, además es una enzima muy resistente se puede según los investigadores se puede congelar o calentar incluso hasta 80 grados Celsius y aun así conserva su poder para generar energía del aire pero del aire del hidrógeno, es decir, necesita hidrógeno para poder producir esa electricidad.
Las ventajas es que puede ser utilizada en sitios donde utilizar la energía solar o otras fuentes de energía es complicada, pero hay un ambiente que yo creo que lo haría especialmente ideal y es un ambiente muy rígido muy rico en hidrógeno, me estoy refiriendo a planetas como Júpiter o Saturno, esta enzima sería ideal para crear baterías donde naves que estuvieran en la atmósfera flotando en la atmósfera de Saturno o Júpiter pudieran tener esa fuente de energía gracias a esa enzima.
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