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Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever (scitechdaily.com)

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Northwestern University researchers have introduced a soil-microbe-powered fuel cell, significantly outperforming similar technologies and providing a sustainable solution for powering low-energy devices.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (10 children)

How much power does it produce? It must be pretty bad since they don't mention it anywhere in the article.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

The linked article has a table that gives 1.74 uW/cm^2. However glancing over the rest of the paper there's a ton of variability of output.

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