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Using ‘wired microbes’ to generate electricity from sewage

By Damir Beciri
23 September 2013

microbial-battery-1Exoelectrogenic microbes are organisms evolved in airless environments which developed the ability to react with oxide minerals to create biological fuel needed for their survival. Although several research groups tried different approaches to tap into this source of energy since the turn of millennium, efficient use of these microbes as bio-generators proved to be challenging…. »