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Nature 454, 943-944 (21 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/454943a; Published online 20 August 2008

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Microbial fuels for the future

Bruce Logan1

BOOK REVIEWEDBioenergy

Edited by Judy D. Wall, Caroline S. Harwood and Arnold Demain
ASM Press: 2008. 454 pp. $149.95

An individual in the United States consumes the equivalent of 100 watts of continuous power from food, but it takes more than a hundred times this amount to sustain their lifestyle. Fossil fuels cannot provide this much power for every person on the planet, and we must reduce our dependence on these fuels to address global carbon dioxide emissions and climate change.

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