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A Bionic Mushroom That Generates Electricity

2 pointsby smb111over 6 years ago

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ryanmercerover 6 years ago
*Bacteria and graphene nanoribbons 3D printed on a mushroom generates 65 nanoAmps.<p>I&#x27;m going to go out on a limb here and say that the energy it produces over the lifespan of the mushroom is several orders of magnitude less than goes into manufacturing the &#x27;bionic&#x27; bits.<p>I can&#x27;t find how long A. bisporus lives after it caps but I&#x27;m guessing weeks at best. I&#x27;m not paying for the paper so I have no idea if they mention voltage and I have no idea what voltage might be capable of being produced by I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s going to be considerably less than a boiled potato (5ish volts)... sooo...<p>Almost certainly less than 3.25e-7 watts, so you&#x27;re talking tens of thousands of weeks to even get a watt hour.<p>Just the two of us visiting the link likely used more electricity than one of those would produce in a century, if not a millennium or more.