Team:Hong Kong-CUHK

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<h1>Project Description</h1>
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<h2>Objectives</h2>
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<p class="main-content">Our world is obviously facing several urgent problems in which energy crisis is definitely a major one.
 
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Nowadays, there are corresponding solutions to this problem. However, we find that the existing solutions are not satisfactory.
 
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There are solar panels to convert light energy into electricity, but it usually requires a large infrastructure.
 
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However, the efficiency of the conversion process is still not good enough.
 
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In order to improve the situation, our project targets at producing electricity more cheaply, more effectively and in a more portable way.</p>
 
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<h2>How can we achieve this?</h2>
 
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<p class="main-content">We employ a light-driven ion pump in our project.
 
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By expressing the pump into our target bacterial strain, we can control the bacteria to pump in ions from the environment,
 
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and eventually produce a salinity difference. Also, we are going to manufacture a pair of specific electrodes.
 
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By making use of the electrodes, the salinity difference as well as our genetically engineered bacteria,
 
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we can generate electricity from the salinity difference which is produced by our genetically engineered bacteria in the presence of light.
 
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It is a brand new way to generate electricity.</p>
 
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