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Made me wonder if there is a way to use them to generate electricity somehow? Could one of these microbes be modified so you could feed it something and it make

• COGlory 7y ago
  Doubtful. Small scale in a lab? Maybe. There's a reason they had to go a mile underground to collect a sample. Normal atmospheric conditions are likely toxic to the organism. What we're actually after with this kind of thing is enzyme mechanisms. Enzymes are doing chemistry we've never done in labs before. Maybe we can replicate that chemistry on an industrial scale to solve some problems. Particularly the Fe-S clusters are of real interest, as they're responsible for moving individual (or sometimes pairs) of electrons around.