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To: neverdem
This is really more of an engine than a battery in that it burns fuel (sugar) instead of being recharged (by reversing the electro/chemical process like a lead acid battery).

It does have some very interesting possibilities if it can be scaled up to the point that you could run a car on these.

14 posted on 03/03/2014 10:59:10 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: Boiler Plate

Biological process based fuel cell-runs as long as you feed it. Combine with self mobility and behavior to forage for sustenance, could become autonomous. Add intelligence and ability to duplicate or self repair and achieve “Replicators”. Piss them off...


34 posted on 03/04/2014 2:43:47 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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