Planet Battery

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Lampertina on 2007-12-26 - Tags bacteria , biology , biosphere , bldgblog , earth_science_theory , science

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It's not a planet at all, then, but a bio-electrical deposit rotating itself in space. A living battery.

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And while that obviously sounds far-fetched, we actually read that these microbes function as a "geological battery," and that this battery is made from "networks of tiny wires linking individual bacterial cells into a web-like electrical circuit." These circuits could extend for miles – hundreds of miles – whole continents and island chains, linked by reefs.