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...Researchers have achieved the seemingly impossible by producing electricity out of thin air.
...Decades ago, scientists discovered an unusual microbe, G. sulfurreducens, which can not only produce magnetite without oxygen, but it can also make bacterial nano-wires that conduct electricity.
..."We are literally making electricity out of thin air," says electrical engineer Jun Yao from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
...The system is quite straightforward and consists of a thin film of protein nanowire just seven micrometers thick which is positioned between two electrodes and exposed to the air.
...Similar experiments have been conducted previously using nano materials like graphene, but they only produced intermittent, short bursts of electricity, rather than a "Continuous voltage output" like the Air Gen system.
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