Experts from the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, have conducted a successful experiment of generating electricity from dead E. coli bacteria.
The team of scientists modified the bacteria, using a mechanism called extracellular electron transfer (EET), to make them highly efficient electrical microbes. This process triples the production of electrical current compared to conventional methods.
Professor Ardimis Boghossin from the institute says that the researchers generated electricity by changing E. coli bacteria. Although these unusual microbes that generate electricity naturally can only do so in the presence of specific chemistry. E. coli can grow in a variety of places, which means that electricity can be generated in a variety of environments, including wastewater.
