Over to sugar-eating bug power! - The Times of India: "In a Pentagon-backed project, University of Massachusetts researchers Swadesh Chaudhuri, an Indian, and Derek Lovley, an American, say the battery�s source is an underground bacterium that gobbles up sugar and converts its energy into electricity.

Their prototype device ran flawlessly without refuelling for up to 25 days and is cheap and stable."


Now this is what our tax money should be going for, real science for the future. To bad some oil company will buy the right to it and it will never be seen again.