Wired News reports:
A 16-year-old high school student has invented a new way of producing electricity by harnessing the brawny power of bacteria.
Kartik Madiraju, an 11th-grader from Montreal, was able to generate about half the voltage of a normal AA battery with a fifth of an ounce of naturally occurring magnetic bacteria. And the bacteria kept pumping current for 48 hours nonstop.
May 16, 2006 at 6:01 pm
woooooooohoooooo!
this is happy news– hooray for bacteria! hooray for 16 year old whiz kids!!!!