Computer powered by blue-green algae

[Wayne Mack]

Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months

Blue-green algae, a type of cyanobacteria, set in a container on a windowsill powered a computer continuously for six months using photosynthesis

www.newscientist.com

 

[OuttaInc]

Ha! I think that’s the same stuff that keeps growing in the water reservoir of my coffee brewer! I wonder if I can re-wire it to run off its own generated electricity.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Fascinating.
As used in my 1996 novel Memory Seed!

 

[LostCosmonaut]

Well, that's the coolest thing I've seen this morning. Very solarpunk!