Bacteria (even E Coli) biological fuel cells - nanowires
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9526
The discovery that a wide variety of bacteria can be persuaded to produce wire-like appendages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10925411
10 August 2010
New 'superbug' found in UK hospitals
NDM-1 can live inside different bacteria, like E.coli, and it makes them resistant to one of the most powerful groups of antibiotics - carbapenems.
Although there have only been about 50 cases identified in the UK so far, scientists fear it will go global.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hEnc00D5YgQjLxbZqLLkjOw_fwz... May11,2010
At least 19 people have been sickened in connection with the E. coli outbreaks, which come from a rare strain of the disease that is difficult to diagnose.
science article http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn9526
The discovery that a wide variety of bacteria can be persuaded to produce wire-like appendages that conduct electricity could prove vital to the development of more efficient biological fuel cells.
THIS MITE IS ABOUT THE SIZE OF BACTERIA THAT THEY WOULD BE USING THIS DISCOVERY ON OF MAKING BACTERIA GROW NANOWIRES OF A FORM OF A BIOLOGICAL FUEL CELL OF THE FUTURE (that includes persuading E-Coli bacteria to produce these appendages)
Bacteria that use sugars and sewage as fuel are being investigated as a pollution-free source of electricity. They feed by plucking electrons from atoms in their fuel and dumping them onto the oxygen or metal atoms in the mixture. The transfer of the electrons creates a current
A species of bacterium called Geobacter sulfurreducens, which dumps electrons onto metal, has previously been persuaded to grow nanowires to make contact with distant atoms A deficit of metal atoms in the close vicinity of the bacteria can cause a bottleneck, so the proliferation of nanowires allows the bacteria to consume more fuel, potentially boosting the current produced by a microbial fuel cell.
CHEMTRAILS?
Now a study by Yuri Gorby of Pacific Northwest National Laboratories in Washington State, US, and colleagues reveals that several other kinds of bacteria produce similar nanowires.
Gorbys team coaxed Shewanella oneidensis another bacterium that dumps electrons onto metal into producing nanowires by growing it in vats that carefully control the amount of oxygen available. This forced the bacteria to extend nanowires to make contact with more metal atoms.
The nanowires were between 50 and 150 nanometres wide and extended tens of micrometres, allowing the bacteria to reach atoms hundreds of times as far away as the length of their cells.
The researchers used similar methods to encourage nanowires to sprout from other micro-organisms, including a photosynthesising bacterium called Synechocysitis PCC6803.
A clearer understanding of the way bacterial nanowires form should allow engineers to make more efficient and powerful biological fuel cells, Gorby says. For example, they could ensure that the chemical conditions surrounding bacteria encourage it to grow as many nanowires as possible, increasing conductivity.
Andrew Crosse reported to the London electrical Society concerning the accidental spontaneous generation of life in the form of Acurus genus insects while he was conducting experiments on the formation of artificial crystals by means of prolonged exposure to weak electric current. Throughout numerous strict experiments under a wide variety of conditions utterly inimical to life as we know it, the insects continued to manifest. The great Michael Faraday also reported to the Royal Institute that he had replicated the experiment. Soon afterwards, all notice of this phenomenon ceased to be reported, and the matter has not been resolved since then.
http://antonyhall.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/electrical-life-andrew-crosse/
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