The Boston Globe, February 26th, 2002
It was inevitable that sooner or later we would ask bacteria to make electricity. I mean, what else do they do but hang around in staggering, colossal numbers, doing pretty much nothing but eating, wiggling, and reproducing. Why not ask them to put their talents to practical use, as in a battery, for example? That's just what a team of scientists have done, led by Derek Lovley and Daniel Bond of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. They have found a species of bacteria that can make electricity from sea-floor sediments, by generating excess electrons that collect on electrodes stuck in ...
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