Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Psalm 139:14 NLT
"The ground beneath our feet and under the ocean floor is an
electrically-charged grid created by bacteria “exhaling” excess
electrons through tiny nanowires in an oxygen-depleted environment.
By
identifying the mechanism of electron flow, Yale University
researchers have been studying ways to improve this natural electrical
conductivity within nanowires 1/100,000th the width of a human hair.... a team led by graduate student Peter Dahl with Nikhil Malvankar, found that nanowires move 10 billion electrons per second
without any energy loss. This research explains the remarkable capacity
of these bacteria to send electrons over long distances.....also found that cooling the environment around the nanowires of the bacteria Geobacter from room temperature to
freezing increases conductivity 300-fold. This is very surprising
because cooling typically freezes electrons and slows them down in
organic materials. By combining experiments with theory, the researchers
found that colder temperatures restructure hydrogen bonds and flatten
heme proteins within nanowires, thus enhancing the flow of electricity.
Leveraging
this naturally occurring electrical grid might one day lead to the
development of living and self-repairing electrical circuits, new
sources of electricity, and bioremediation strategies." SciTechDaily
