Green Energy Generation without Carbon Dioxide Emission!

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Green Energy Generation without Carbon Dioxide Emission is Important Nowadays

We aware that most of the power plants emit a huge amount of carbon dioxide every day all over the world. This carbon dioxide has a negative impact on our environment and greenhouse gases. We cannot think without electricity for a single moment, but we everybody hardly desire carbon-dioxide free system which now days called “clean” or “green”. 

For a long time, scientists have been trying to go for ‘green electricity’. What do you think about Green Energy? Alternatives are fossil fuels, a broad range of solar panels, or a field of pure white turbines? Perhaps, but have you ever thought of a bucket of bacteria? Yes, now scientists are thinking Cyanobacteria may help us to generate clean or green electricity.

Cyanobacteria:

You may hear to as blue-green algae or blue-green bacteria, which existing from more than 3 billion years. Cyanobacteria exist in all environments, from the very hospitable to the unimaginable, from hotspots like the Sahara Desert to frozen places like Antarctica. Biological reactions are good at forming carbon-carbon bonds and also have natural electrogenic tendencies. 

We know most chemical raw materials come from petroleum and natural gases, but chemists have already engineered blue-green algae to grow chemicals as a model for fuels and plastics. They engineered cyanobacteria to convert carbon dioxide into 2.3 butanediol (a chemical) that can be used to make paint, solvents, plastics, and fuels. 

Experts say it’s easy to produce ethanol from cyanobacteria using carbon dioxide and sunlight, whereas producing it from corn or switchgrass requires massive amounts of land for growing fuel.

Green Electricity from Cyanobacteria:

Now it’s time to imagine your power-generating solar cell is alive! Yes, your tomorrow’s 4G solar cell will be Blue-Green colored and Organic! This organic solar cell will be made from nontoxic materials that will generate electricity by directly converting sunlight into electrical energy without emitting any carbon dioxide. 

Researchers found that Cyanobacteria have natural electrogenic tendencies that can create solar electricity in a self-sustaining manner. These blue-green bacteria are naturally light-dependent, meaning that they inherently generate and transfer high-energy electrons into their environment when exposed to light.

The characteristics of Cyanobacteria are to produce free electrons for their own purposes, releasing only a small amount of electrons to the external environment.  Researchers managed to develop a Photosynthetic Microbial Fuel Cell, which growth chamber for the cyanobacteria and electron harvester that collects excess electricity which released during photosynthesis process. 

Inside the cell bacteria grow electron directly on top the conductive surface which called anode. So, when exposed to light, they directly emit electrons onto the anode (electron collector).

The process of collecting electricity from Cyanobacteria is almost similar to the conventional solar cell, where sunlight strikes a semiconductor, which is generally made from silicon, cadmium, and indium; but here it strikes the bacteria and produces electricity.

We hope this organic energy source will ensure future power safety, and it will be the perfect clean or green energy for future generations. 

Source: wekipedia/jurnal/blog/net/

Electricity from Cyanobacteria: What Biophotovoltaics Can (and Cannot) Power

A pond-scum organism that has been splitting water for roughly 2.5 billion years can also feed an electrode. That is the premise of biophotovoltaics (BPV): cyanobacteria such as Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 absorb light, oxidise water at Photosystem II, and a small fraction of the resulting electrons leaks through the cell envelope to an anode. Wire the anode to a cathode and you have a living solar cell.

The headline numbers are modest — micro- to milliwatts, not kilowatts — and that is exactly why the technology deserves a rigorous engineering read rather than a hype cycle. This article works through the electrochemistry, the best published power densities, the 2026 state of electron-transfer engineering, worked sizing calculations for a duty-cycled sensor node, and the biosafety, chemical, and regulatory risks a Bangladeshi lab or startup would face. It is written for engineers who need to decide whether BPV belongs on a roadmap, not for readers hoping to retire their rooftop PV.

How Cyanobacteria Generate Electricity: The BPV Cell

A BPV cell is a bioelectrochemical system: photosynthetic cells are interfaced with an anode, and electrons released from the cells flow through an external circuit to a cathode, producing a photocurrent. The process by which electrons cross the cell envelope into the environment is called exoelectrogenesis, or extracellular electron transfer (EET).

BPV cell schematic: light, PSII water oxidation, EET to anode, external load, cathode oxygen reduction

Half-reactions (neutral pH, idealised):

Anode (biofilm):   2H2O  →  O2 + 4H⁺ + 4e⁻          (PSII water oxidation)
Cathode (air):     O2 + 4H⁺ + 4e⁻  →  2H2O

The thermodynamic window is set by where electrons are withdrawn from the photosynthetic electron transport chain (PETC) relative to the cathode potential. In practice, cell voltage is limited by overpotentials at the biotic–abiotic interface, so single cells deliver tens to a few hundred millivolts and stacks are wired in series.

Two operating modes matter for engineers:

• Light mode. Photocurrent tracks photon flux. A study with the green alga Chlorella vulgaris found that photosynthetic oxygen-evolution rates were consistent with BPV power output under red, green, and blue light, supporting the direct coupling to photosynthetic activity.
• Dark mode. Output continues at night, at a reduced level. The Cambridge team attributes this to cells processing food stored during the light period. In one printed-electrode device, power was 0.38 mW/m² in light and 0.22 mW/m² in the dark, and stayed within 10% over more than 100 h of 10 h light / 14 h dark cycling.

That second behaviour is what separates BPV from a conventional PV cell: a solar panel needs a battery to bridge the night, whereas a BPV cell carries a partial, biological buffer inside the device.

Why the output is so low: the electron-export bottleneck

Estimates for achievable BPV current density range from 340 to 2460 µA/cm², depending on the photon flux at the site. Reported outputs are generally two or three orders of magnitude lower, and lab BPV devices have only been able to run loads below 1 mW. The cause is weak exoelectrogenesis: the cell membrane and cell wall are the primary barriers to extracting photosynthetic electrons.

Unit conversion helps put this in perspective (1 µA/cm² = 10 mA/m²):

Theoretical range:  340–2460 µA/cm² = 3.4–24.6 A/m²
At an assumed 0.5 V cell voltage:   P = 1.7–12.3 W/m²
Typical lab output: 0.38–10.3 mW/m²   →  roughly 165× to 4,500× below the low-end estimate

(The 0.5 V figure is an illustrative assumption for this comparison, not a measured value from the referenced work.)

Benchmarking the Numbers: Published BPV Power Densities

The table below consolidates peer-reviewed results. Treat it as an order-of-magnitude map, not a league table: electrode area basis, light intensity, mediators, and measurement duration differ between studies.

Table 1: Reported BPV and cyanobacterial photocurrent results

Device / study	Organism	Result	Engineering note
Digitally printed bioelectrode (Nat Commun, 2017)	Synechocystis	0.38 mW/m² light, 0.22 mW/m² dark	Stable (±10%) over >100 h of light/dark cycling; suited to biosensors at 10–100 µW, 1–2 V per the authors
PCC 6803 on ITO-PET anode (McCormick, 2011)	Synechocystis PCC 6803	10.3 mW/m² under 10 W/m² white light	Efficiency ≈ 0.1% on incident light
Microfluidic µBPV (arXiv:1411.5948)	Synechocystis	294 ± 17 mW/m² (light), 275 ± 20 (dark); abiotic control 189 ± 32; biotic-only ≈ 105 mW/m²	Mediator-free; abiotic background must be subtracted to claim biological output
Two-species consortium (Nat Commun, 2019)	Cyanobacteria + Shewanella	>150 mW/m²	Long-lived, constrained electron flow
Intracellular gold nanoparticles (J Power Sources, 2021)	Synechocystis	18.8 µW/cm² (188 mW/m²), 33.6× the no-nanoparticle device	<8% cell death after ~120 h
Best reported (Tschörtner et al. review, 2019)	Synechococcus sp.	≈ 610 mW/m²	Highest in that review; mediators and electrode design vary
Conductive pili with targeted AuNPs (Nat Commun, 2026)	Synechocystis PCC 6803	0.82 µA/cm² (8.2 mA/m²) vs 0.19 µA/cm² control (4.3×)	Mediator-free, planar ITO; among the highest reported for that configuration
Cambridge microprocessor harvester (EES, 2022)	Synechocystis PCC 6803	Ran an Arm Cortex-M0+ for >6 months	AA-battery-sized, aluminium anode, ambient light

Power density benchmarks of reported BPV devices versus a c-Si PV module on a log scale

Worked example 1: conversion efficiency

Efficiency η = P / (G × A), where G is incident irradiance.

McCormick 2011:  10.3 mW/m² at G = 10 W/m²   →  η = 0.0103 / 10   = 0.103 %
Best reported:   610 mW/m² at G = 1000 W/m²   →  η = 0.610 / 1000 = 0.061 %
µBPV biotic:     105 mW/m² at G = 1000 W/m²   →  η = 0.105 / 1000 = 0.0105 %

The 1000 W/m² basis is the AM1.5G terrestrial reference used for PV rating; the reference spectrum is defined in IEC 60904-3 (current edition: Ed. 4.0, 2019 — see the standards note below). A crystalline-silicon module at ~20% efficiency delivers about 200 W/m² under those conditions, so the best BPV figure sits roughly 330× below silicon on an areal basis (200,000 / 610 ≈ 328).

Conclusion for grid or rooftop planning: BPV does not compete with PV. It competes with coin cells and primary batteries in the microwatt regime.

The Real Engineering Frontier: Wiring the Cell to the Electrode

Because the cell envelope is the choke point, nearly every recent advance targets electron extraction. The 2026 Nature Communications study from the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the cleanest recent example of this approach.

What they did. The team fused a gold-binding peptide to the major type IV pilin of Synechocystis, so that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) assemble on the pili rather than binding at random. The pili themselves do not contribute to photocurrent — the wild-type and pili mutants performed similarly — which made them a neutral scaffold for the conductive layer.

What it delivered (three-electrode cell, ITO working electrode, 0.7 V vs Ag/AgCl, 658 nm light):

• Photocurrent rose from ~0.19 to 0.82 µA/cm² (≈ 4.3×).
• Charge-transfer resistance (Rct) dropped from 516 Ω to 398 Ω — a 23% reduction.
• Electrochemically active surface area increased 52%, and biofilm thickness roughly doubled.
• Gold loading was 9.4 × 10⁻¹⁷ mol/cell, about two orders of magnitude lower than non-targeted approaches. Targeted binding mattered: random AuNP binding on the control strain produced no photocurrent gain.
• AuNPs recovered from inactivated cells (50–65% recovery by ICP-MS) still boosted fresh cells.

The caveat engineers should keep. The 4× enhancement held for only one to two light/dark cycles under the test conditions before decaying, which the authors attribute to cell bleaching under non-ideal conditions — continuous illumination, insufficient gas exchange and mass transfer, no added carbon source — not to nanoparticle loss. Cell viability and retention on the electrode, not the metal interface, is the limiting factor for long-term operation.

The highest photocurrent density the authors report from the literature is 245 µA/cm², obtained with the DCBQ mediator on a branched ITO micropillar electrode — but that is only the initial first-cycle value, and it fell to 1.93 µA/cm² without the mediator. Mediators raise instantaneous current by several- to hundreds-fold but are cytotoxic and photochemically unstable, which restricts long-term use.

Reported fold-improvements from EET engineering strategies in cyanobacterial BPV

Table 2: EET engineering strategies — what each attacks

Strategy	Reported effect	What it fixes	Main trade-off
Outer-membrane deprivation	~order-of-magnitude photocurrent gain (Synechocystis, 2022)	Removes structural barrier	Cell robustness/stability
Exopolysaccharide deprivation	~4× photocurrent (2024)	Reduces EPS barrier	Biofilm formation changes
OmcS / MtrA expression	~9× / ~2× photocurrent	Adds electron-transfer proteins	Hard to assemble full protein complexes in cyanobacterial membranes
Carbon nanotube uptake	~15× photocurrent, lower surface impedance	Auxiliary conduit	Nanomaterial handling and end-of-life
Intracellular AuNP biosynthesis	33.6× max power density	Light absorption + EET	Gold cost, scale
OMV-based membrane exchange (Shewanella cytochromes)	~10× photocurrent, higher oxidative-stress tolerance	Conductive outer membrane	Early-stage, lab-only
Targeted AuNP on pili (2026)	4.3× photocurrent at ~100× less gold	Spatially precise conduit	Viability limits runtime
ATP-synthase engineering (S. elongatus, 2025)	+41% max photocurrent at 2400 µmol photons m⁻² s⁻¹	Light/temperature tolerance	Single-strain result

Read this table as a menu of independent levers. The studies use different strains, electrodes, and metrics (photocurrent versus power density), so the multipliers are not additive.

Sizing a BPV Source for a Duty-Cycled Sensor Node

Power density only becomes meaningful when converted to electrode area for a defined load. The worked example below sizes a hypothetical LoRa-class environmental sensor.

Worked example 2: average load, energy storage, and area

Step 1 — Node average power. 3.3 V supply; 20 mA active for 1 s every 600 s; 2 µA sleep current:

I_avg = 20 mA × (1/600) + 2 µA = 33.3 µA + 2 µA = 35.3 µA
P_avg = 3.3 V × 35.3 µA ≈ 116.6 µW

Step 2 — Burst energy and storage. Each active burst draws:

E_burst = V × I × t = 3.3 × 0.020 × 1 = 66 mJ

Allowing the supply rail to droop from 3.3 V to 2.5 V during the burst:

C ≥ 2E / (V1² − V2²) = 2 × 0.066 / (3.3² − 2.5²) = 0.132 / 4.64 ≈ 28.4 mF

A 47 mF supercapacitor gives margin (check ESR against the 20 mA pulse and leakage against the 600 s recharge window).

Step 3 — Area at different power densities (A = P / p):

p = 0.38 mW/m²  (printed BPV)   →  A = 0.1166 / 0.38  = 0.307 m² ≈ 3,068 cm²
p = 10.3 mW/m²  (ITO-PET)       →  A = 0.1166 / 10.3  = 0.0113 m² ≈ 113 cm²
p = 105 mW/m²   (µBPV biotic)   →  A = 0.1166 / 105   = 0.0011 m² ≈ 11.1 cm²
p = 610 mW/m²   (best reported) →  A = 0.1166 / 610   = 1.9 cm²

Required electrode area versus areal power density for a 116.6 µW IoT node

Step 4 — Day/night derating. Using the printed-device ratio (0.22 mW/m² dark vs 0.38 mW/m² light) over a 10 h light / 14 h dark cycle:

p_avg = (10 × 0.38 + 14 × 0.22) / 24 = 0.287 mW/m²
A = 0.1166 / 0.287 ≈ 0.407 m² ≈ 4,067 cm²
With a 1.25 design margin (temperature, ageing): ≈ 5,084 cm² ≈ 0.51 m²

Half a square metre for a 117 µW node is not a product. The lesson is that the 1-in-10-minute duty cycle above is too aggressive for today's lab-grade BPV.

Worked example 3: where BPV does close the loop

Cut the load to a 10 µW average (longer sleep, 1 transmission per hour):

A = 0.010 mW / 0.287 mW/m² ≈ 0.0349 m² ≈ 349 cm²  (≈ 436 cm² with 1.25 margin)

That is a palm-to-tablet-sized panel — plausible for a disposable, long-sleep sensor. For comparison, a typical CR2032 coin cell (≈225 mAh nominal at 3 V, i.e. 2.43 kJ) running the 116.6 µW node lasts about 2,430 J / 116.6 µW ≈ 2.1 × 10⁷ s ≈ 241 days, ignoring self-discharge and pulse derating. At 10 µW the same cell lasts about 7.7 years on paper, so BPV only wins where battery replacement logistics, not energy content, dominate the cost.

The Cambridge reference point. The Cambridge/Arm system ran an Arm Cortex-M0+ in cycles of 45 minutes of computation (0.3 µW) followed by 15 minutes of standby (0.24 µW):

P_avg = (0.3 × 45 + 0.24 × 15) / 60 = 0.285 µW

That is the scale at which BPV is demonstrated today: sub-microwatt average load, continuous for months, on a windowsill in ambient light. It is a proof of concept for ultra-low-power computing, not for conventional telemetry.

Series stacking and power conditioning

Single cells deliver far less than a logic rail. To reach 3.3 V from cells delivering about 0.3 V:

N = ceil(3.3 / 0.3) = 11 cells in series

In practice a boost converter or energy-harvesting PMIC with a low cold-start threshold is the better route — check the datasheet cold-start voltage against your cell's open-circuit voltage under dim light and at 35–40 °C. Series strings need cell-to-cell uniformity, because a weak cell limits current for the whole string, and the same bleaching mechanism that shortens the 2026 pili device's useful life will raise string resistance as individual cells age.

Where BPV Fits: Application Matrix

Table 3: BPV versus competing micro-power sources

Source	Typical strength	Weakness	Best fit
Cyanobacterial BPV	Renewable, partly self-buffering (dark output), recyclable materials	µW–mW, viability and stability limits, biological handling	Disposable biosensors, ultra-low-power IoT, education/demonstrators
Primary coin cell	Mature, predictable	Finite energy, disposal, replacement labour	Devices with multi-year sleep budgets
Indoor/outdoor PV + supercap	Orders of magnitude higher areal power	Needs storage across night	Most outdoor IoT
Microbial fuel cell (heterotrophic)	Can use wastewater feed	Needs organic fuel, maintenance	Wastewater-site sensors

Cambridge-linked work continues to push toward a consumer-facing "biocell": design-press coverage from August 2026 describes a transparent demonstrator cell powering a clock radio and a temperature sensor that reports to a mobile app, built by a bio-designer with Cambridge biochemistry and electrical-engineering collaborators. Treat that as a signal of design maturity, not a performance benchmark — independent power and lifetime data were not part of that coverage.

Bangladesh context

Three local conditions shape any BPV pilot:

1. Heat. The 2026 pili study cultured Synechocystis at 30 °C. Dhaka summer afternoons and sun-exposed enclosures routinely run well above that. The ambient-temperature derating logic that applies to thermal-magnetic breakers (see our circuit breaker tripping guide) applies equally to living cells: measure the temperature inside the enclosure under load, not the room temperature, and design shading or ventilation before blaming the biology.
2. Humidity and monsoon. Aqueous electrolyte, aluminium or carbon electrodes, and exposed wiring need sealed enclosures with appropriate IP rating; leak detection belongs in the design.
3. Remote sensing. Haor wetlands, char islands, and coastal embankments are exactly where battery replacement is costly — the same off-grid contexts discussed in our Bangladesh renewable energy roadmap. BPV will not move a megawatt in that roadmap, but it is a research candidate for the sensor layer that monitors it.

Risk and Safety Instructions

BPV looks benign — water, light, and algae — but a lab or field pilot carries biological, chemical, electrical, and regulatory risks that deserve explicit controls.

Table 4: BPV hazard and control register

Hazard	Source	Control
Cyanotoxin exposure	Wild-collected or bloom-derived cyanobacteria can produce microcystins	Use only characterised, non-toxigenic laboratory strains from a culture collection; never harvest pond or reservoir blooms for devices. WHO's provisional guideline for microcystin-LR in drinking water is 1 µg/L (lifetime exposure), underscoring how low the safe threshold is
Mosquito breeding	Open water cultures near windows, especially in dengue-endemic Dhaka	Keep cultures in sealed vessels; no standing water on open trays
Genetically modified strains	Engineered pili, cytochrome expression, membrane modification (as in the studies above)	Treat as GMOs: in Bangladesh, the Biosafety Rules 2012 (under the Environment Conservation Act 1995) restrict import, export, sale or commercial use of GMOs without approval from the Ministry of Environment, and the Biosafety Guidelines of Bangladesh (2007, gazetted 2008) cover contained use and field testing. A National Biosafety Policy 2024 exists and amendments to the 2012 Rules have been proposed — confirm current status with the Department of Environment before any release or commercialisation
Toxic mediators	DCBQ, ferricyanide and similar redox shuttles	Avoid in field devices; handle with PPE and fume-hood practice in the lab; segregate chemical waste
Nanomaterial/precious-metal waste	AuNPs, carbon nanotubes, indium (ITO)	Collect and recover; follow institutional waste procedures; do not discharge to drains
Electrical	Extra-low-voltage output (mV to a few volts)	Low shock risk, but still isolate from mains-powered instruments; mind short-circuit heating of thin conductors
Gas and pressure	Photosynthetic O₂ evolution in sealed vessels	Provide pressure relief or gas exchange; do not seal rigid glass without a vent path
Leak and corrosion	Saline BG11-type electrolyte near electronics and aluminium anodes	Potted electronics, drip loop, corrosion-resistant fasteners, IP-rated enclosure
Thermal stress	Sun-exposed enclosures above culture tolerance	Shading, ventilation, temperature logging

General practice: document strain identity, source, and containment level; keep a culture log; label vessels; and obtain institutional biosafety committee sign-off for any modified strain before work starts.

Standards, Reporting Basis, and Editorial Notes

No dedicated IEC or IEEE performance standard for biophotovoltaics turned up in the sources checked for this article, so treat any claim of "standard BPV rating" with caution. What engineers can do is borrow the reporting discipline of PV:

• Irradiance basis. State light intensity and spectrum explicitly; the AM1.5G reference spectral irradiance is defined in IEC 60904-3:2019 (Ed. 4.0, current edition when checked; its stability date is listed as 2026, so check IEC for a newer edition before quoting it in a formal report).
• Area basis. Report projected electrode area and total device footprint separately — electrode-normalised numbers flatter small devices.
• Controls. Always run an abiotic control and subtract it (the µBPV work shows an abiotic output of 189 mW/m² against 294 mW/m² gross).
• Duration. Report hours of stable operation and the light/dark schedule; one-cycle peaks are not device ratings.
• Temperature and medium. State both, since cell physiology and ionic resistance depend on them.

Quick-Reference Decision Matrix

Table 5: Should BPV be on your roadmap?

If your requirement is…	…then	Why
>1 mW continuous, outdoor	Use PV + battery	Best BPV areal power (~0.6 W/m²) is ~330× below silicon
10–100 µW average, disposable, long sleep	Pilot BPV	Area is in the hundreds of cm² at 0.29 mW/m² (≈349 cm² for 10 µW)
Sub-µW computation or sensing	BPV is demonstrated	Cambridge/Arm: 0.285 µW average load for months
Must use engineered strains	Add biosafety review	Bangladesh Biosafety Rules 2012 / Guidelines 2007 apply
Open-water or field deployment	Don't	Cyanotoxin, dengue, and containment risks
Research funding or climate-tech pitch	Target EET engineering	The bottleneck is the cell–electrode interface

Conclusion: A Biological Power Source with an Honest Scale

Electricity from cyanobacteria is real, reproducible, and improving: the field has moved from picowatt-scale demonstrations to a microprocessor running for months, and 2026 work has shown that spatially programmed conductors on the cell surface can quadruple photocurrent with a hundredth of the gold. But the arithmetic is unforgiving. At today's 0.4–610 mW/m², BPV belongs in the microwatt regime, and the breakthroughs that matter next are about keeping cells alive and wired for months, not about squeezing another factor of two out of a 24-hour peak.

For practising engineers, the useful posture is to size loads in microwatts, report area and irradiance bases like a PV engineer, treat engineered strains as regulated organisms, and keep the technology on the R&D bench until a device holds its output for a season rather than a cycle.

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