E COLI POWER
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN researchers have developed a method of harnessing electricity from bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that they are able to generate ten times as much electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.
GERMAN researchers have developed a method of harnessing electricity from bio-chemical reactions generated by the food poisoning bacteria E coli eating sugar. Scientists from Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald claim that they are able to generate ten times as much electricity using microbial fuel cells using E coli than with previous designs, because of a newly designed anode and the voraciousness of the bacteria.
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