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Using bacteria batteries to make electricity

• nanowerk.com
 They want to make use of the bacteria Escherichia coli to convert glucose into energy. With this project, they are taking part in this year’s ‘international Genetically Engineered Machine competition’ (iGEM) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA. Since May, they have been spending a lot of their free time in the laboratory in order to realise their idea. Now that the first test results are available, the project enters an important phase. Student Thorben Meyer explains how he and his fellow team members came up with the idea for the project: ‘There is an ever-increasing demand for sources of alternative energy. The conservation of fossil fuels and the phasing out of nuclear energy in Germany have sped this process up.’ Another consideration was the environmental pollution caused by conventional batteries.


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