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Breakthrough in Electricity-Producing Microbe
University of Massachusetts researchers have made a breakthrough with "Geobacter," a microbe that produces electric current from mud and wastewater. A conservative estimate puts the energy output increase at eight times that of the original organism, potentially allowing applications far beyond that of extracting electricity from mud. "Now, planning can move forward to design microbial fuel cells that convert waste water and renewable biomass to electricity, treat a single home's waste while producing localized power (especially attractive in developing countries), power mobile electronics, vehicles and implanted medical devices, and drive bioremediation of contaminated environments."
The result of providing a more challenging environment, within five short months, Lovley notes, was evolution of a beefed-up microorganism
Evolution..., well, in this case, we could be a partly right if we speak of intelligent design.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Congrats to the douchebag who modded this redundant. You have proven yourself incapable of discerning a comment that suggests: "there is a lot of bullshit in Washington DC that would lure bullshit-eating microbes to the Potomac" and a comment that suggests: "washington DC is full of scum-sucking politicians, so what are the chances that the microbes in DC suck scum as well?"
I hope you strangle yourself with the helmet your mother makes you wear whenever you go outside.
So why the "congratulations"? Because you're no longer the dumbest person with modpoints on slashdot. There was a person who modded my post as "Flamebait" because they've microwaved their head for long enough to think that calling a politician a "bottom-feeding scumsucker" is trying to pick fights on the internets. You read that correctly. Someone has been registered on slashdot for more than 6 months and thinks that the leadership and appointed representation of this fine country is composed of sterling men who have nothing but the populace's best interests at heart -- instead of their own.
But sadly, this post does nothing toward rectifying such a situation, so I'm sorry to everyone else that I'm wasting the time and bandwidth to tell these two idiots that they are idiots.
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It was redundant because reverseengineer made the same joke, but better. We don't need you explaining other peoples humor. The above post is flamebait/offtopic because that's the appropriate place for mod complaints. Get the fuck over yourself. Seriously.
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