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From the paper it seems like they did build a demonstrator to test their model. This is of course very far from a practical power supply, but you can definitely

From the paper it seems like they did build a demonstrator to test their model. This is of course very far from a practical power supply, but you can definitely scratch the could. The only question is how this scales.

PaulKeeble 2y ago
And its actual practical power output and CO2 absording properties. Also with anything biological like this we want to know how long it lasts and what sort of maintenance is required, sounds like we have to dump a lot of algae somewhere since its growing.
- yetihehe 2y ago
  If we want this to be at least remotely effective, we would have to dump some gigatonnes of algae somewhere. That's a LOT of organic matter just waiting to decay into methane etc.
  - sfn42 2y ago
    Could potentially be used for something like animal feed, fertilizer etc
wernercd 2y ago
"the question is how it scales" and which mega corp is going to buy and bury the tech. But seriously... stuff like this ("ZOMG MIRACLE BATTERY! MIRACLE SOLUTION! ZOMG!) seem to disappear because it takes years to turn an idea into a demo... and longer to get a demo to market and to scale. We are surrounded by stuff that followed that route but I hope stuff like this actually makes it to market.