implant battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:41:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Blood-Fed Yeast Batteries Could Greenly Power Pacemakers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/yeast-battery-20090403/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/yeast-battery-20090403/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:41:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3261 As if it wasn't enough for MIT's virus batteries, scientists from the University of British Columbia have now devised a fuel cell prototype able to feed itself from the sugar in the blood stream.The tricky part of the invention is that the fuel cell is made of nothing else but a type of bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that lives in yeast.

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