Hello fellow bloggers!
Have you watched yesterday’s news? They talked
about a very interesting subject: “electrical bacteria”. A small team of
Belgian and Dutch scientists discovered bacteria in the North sea that can
produce electricity. It sounds like magic, but it’s reality.
The “electrical bacteria” was first discovered
in 2010 by Danish scientists in the aftermath of an investigation looking into chemical
fluctuations in the seabed. They were all speechless about the process in which these bacteria generate
electricity and transport electrons over long centimeter-scale distances. The
exact operational principle of the electron transport is not clear yet, but the
research team is trying to find out how the process works and how it influences
the natural processes of the seabed ecosystem.
Once we know how these bacteria generate
electricity, this also could open up new opportunities for innovative research
into bio-electric systems. The “magic bacteria” could work as biological
batteries, generating green energy. But for now, Scientifics are only talking
about nanoelectronics. First calculations have shown that you need for example 20
square meters of seabed to charge an iPod. In other words, these wonderful
creatures cannot immediately be used in daily life.
But what has not yet been achieved, might as
well come forward in the near future…
You can
check the video at the following link:
Klara, Sarah and Klaas
What an amazing story, it almost sounds unreal! Hopefully futher research will clear things up soon.
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