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Cable Bacteria Are Living Batteries

Cable Bacteria Are Living Batteries

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·July 23, 2025
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dsign

Does this mean that bacteria in the middle of the cable live off the electric potential alone (and, I suppose, whatever nutrients they can find at their position in the wire, even if they are not energy-given)? If so, one could build biochemical factories for producing glucose polymers that use solar panels instead of leaves. Leaves are more practical by almost all accounts, except that they are not easy to deploy in space's vacuum....

teruakohatu

It allows the lower cells in the cable to perform cellular respiration by transferring electrons up the chain.

This benefits the top cells in the chain by making the mud less hospitable to competitors. So the bottom cells and top cells all win.

There is a much better article here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250130131404/https://www.scien...

diwank

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