electricity directly from the bacteria?? Remarkable!
Of course, people have been getting electricity from waste material for some time, but it's normally a matter of taking the methane and other gases from the decaying material, and then using the gases in a generator.
A friend at a local water treatment facility says that they use the gases in this sort of manner, and I know that the Los Angeles County landfill runs generators powered by the nasty gases that percolate up out of the trash.
so... now that we can get electricity from the cow poop, maybe we can harness the methane from their flatulence too?? The mind boggles trying to figure out how that might work!
Steve K.