Energy produced from mushrooms

 A new way of producing energy was discovered by researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology located in New Jersey. What's even more interesting, they are simple button mushrooms, which can be found in many of our day-to-day foods. The key to creating a source of energy from them is using cyanobacteria, an organism living all around the globe. It can produce energy from sunlight, even low amounts of it. The only thing about it, was that the only way it can survive is on surfaces already rich in other living organisms. It can't produce energy while living on an artificial surface. That's why the researchers thought that they could place them on mushrooms, which are rich in many other bacteria. They placed an amount of the bacteria on the mushroom and then attached graphene strips to it. A single mushroom can't produce much energy, but a few of them would be able to even light up a lamp or an LED light. This could be a way of an energy source much better and healthier for our planet. 

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  1. sources:
    http://www.biosphereonline.com/2019/01/24/bionic-mushrooms-future-energy-source/
    https://e360.yale.edu/digest/scientists-create-energy-producing-bionic-mushroom
    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46127318
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene_nanoribbon

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  2. So it's not mushrooms but bacteria that produce energy, using mushrooms as 'fuel'.

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