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标题：Microbes for Electricity Production and Light Emission- An Eco-Friendly Technology
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作者：Navpreet Kaur Walia ; Brijdeep Singh2 ; Swaranjit Singh Cameotra 等
期刊名称：Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology
电子版ISSN：2157-7463
出版年度：2014
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：1-1
DOI：10.4172/2157-7463.1000e125
语种：English
出版社：OMICS International
摘要：Humanity, in its youth of the third millennium has an astonishing record of material progress, controlling forces of nature, making science and technology the founding fathers of a cultural revolution and transforming the Stone Age into space age. Under conditions of life when there is no conflict a balance between self-interests and environment protection is maintained. Today we are living in a time of stress. In affluent countries the post war period was a prospect of prosperity for everyone, as the fruits of technology were being harvested and nature was exploited thoughtlessly, “Nature is made for man’, this was principle for action. Today we are faced with scarcity of resources. We do not know in which direction history will move, but two things are certain, one is that thoughtful people are apprehensive about the future, the other is that this apprehension in some ways changing the social values. Energy is the vital need for mankind .The late Nobel laureate Richard Smalley said that “energy is the single greatest challenge facing humanity. Energy can be defined as the ability or the capacity to do work. Energy is used in our day to day life as it lights our cities, powers our vehicles, and runs machinery in factories. In addition, it warms and cools our homes, cooks our food, plays our music, and gives us pictures on television. In recent years, the global demand for energy has been increased massively as a result of industrial development and population growth. However, burning of fossil fuels for the production of energy is thought to be the cause of emissions of carbon dioxide into the Earth’s atmosphere which as a result cause rise in global temperatures. The demand for energy, since the early 2000s, especially from liquid fuels, in addition the restrictions on the rate of fuel production have created such a bottleneck leading to the current energy crisis. The next era of constrained and expensive energy will be very difficult for everyone on Earth however; it will be even more difficult if it is not anticipated. So, it is of extreme importance that the public and especially policymakers should understand the global energy crisis and the underlying science.