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Microbes Produce Power As They Clean Nuclear Waste
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have isolated and explained the phenomenon that causes microbes to generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste. The team is hoping to use their findings to create a microbial fuel cell that is capable of generating renewable energy while it cleans up environments exposed to nuclear waste. The bacteria the team studied is a kind of geobacter that is covered in a coat of tiny, natural nanowires that protect the bacteria from the toxic materials. While completing the complex task of stabilizing radioactive spills, the bacteria simultaneously creates energy that can be harnessed and used as a zero-emissions power supply."
Now if we can only find a bacterium that converts sunlight into nuclear waste we'll have near infinite clean energy!
A rat teaches them martial arts?
And pursuing that shitty experience is why we're here. Well, maybe you. I'm in it for the chicks. Chicks dig my slashdot cred.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
> Proud because possessing a vagina limits scientific prowess?
Proud because a team of female researchers is half the price, so it is not only a scientific achievement, but also an economical one.
lucm, indeed.
Chicks dig my slashdot cred.
Same here. They're always asking me to fix their computer, carry their things, listen to them complain about their boyfriends....
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