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Feb. 24, 2012
Powering Up...With A Microbial Fuel Cell
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| Reporting in Environmental Science and Technology, researchers write of harvesting electricity from microbe-rich river sediments--enough to power a small LED bulb. Grant Burgess, a marine biotechnologist at Newcastle University, discusses the hunt for electron-burping bugs. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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Grant Burgess
Professor of Marine Biotechnology
Newcastle University
Newcastle, United Kingdom
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