Interesting! What about the bacteria that eat and breathe electricity? Is that true? if so, What are the possible applications We could use them for?
What is the mechanism and pathways the Bacteria used?
As a microbiologist or not, feel free to put your comment.
Bacteria can be engineered to produce electricity, according to many research. In the future, this kind of method could be used to help clean water in wastewater treatment plants.
Article BACTERIA EATING POLLUTION AND GENERATING ELECTRICITY
This tecnology is on its way. To me, the system is being tested now, it seems. See attached and how Microbiology has been underestimated for far too long.
Bacteria can be engineered to produce electricity, according to many research. In the future, this kind of method could be used to help clean water in wastewater treatment plants.
Article BACTERIA EATING POLLUTION AND GENERATING ELECTRICITY
This link will give you very interesting information about electrogenic bacteria and their consortia: https://www.pubfacts.com/author/Leonard+M+Tender
Enjoy! IB
Unlike any other life on Earth, these extraordinary bacteria use energy in its purest form – they eat and breathe electrons – and they are everywhere
When we talk about electricity with bacteria what we’re actually talking about is the way they can gain energy. So what these bacteria are able to do is use what we call alternate electronic acceptors. Oxygen for us accepts our electrons, these bacteria can use different things. A study published last year revealed the way that one of these microbes catches and consumes its electrical prey. And not-yet-published work suggests that some metal eaters transport electrons directly across their membranes—a feat once thought impossible.
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A Ferrocene-Based Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte Catalyzes Bacterial Electrode Respiration
http://www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(17)30001-3
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Exoelectrogenic bacteria that power microbial fuel cells.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro2113
I always was thinking of a clone of an electric eel like orgin into a plant, this would be a nice futrue primary souce of electricty for homes, and is green'ish,,,
Perhaps they can be used to form a biofilm that can conduct electrical signals so proficiently between mammalian tissues that they could be used to bridge the gap in severed spinal cords allowing neurons at the injury to send and receive messages again.
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