The speed at which that cargo was moving makes me question whether this could ever be scaled up enough to generate a non-negligible amount of power, let alone enough to solve any particular power requirements we currently have.
What about power requirements we don't currently have? Ideas like these might become useful for building technology that interacts with building blocks of life in a different way than a bulk process (like lithography).
I don't think it's a failure of imagination on my part. It's just we already have a variety of technologies available that cover the low end of the power generation and using bacteria in this way would never compete with what is already out there.
That's not to say there isn't practical applications to this research. I just can't see power generation being one of them.
I dunno what a version 0.1 might usefully do, but on the more speculative horizon... a lot. biological systems are really good at making things.. they made you.
I study bacteria swimming in mucus and I don't understand what the main takeaway of this paper is. Can someone translate the math speak to something a mere mortal can understand?
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 35.7 ms ] threadThat's not to say there isn't practical applications to this research. I just can't see power generation being one of them.
This is definitely a good start for sci-fi writers and I am hoping it doesn't just end there.
>but this capability of the drug delivery by bacteria, this is something new.
Step one: replace the patient's blood with calculator display juice.
Step two: Liquid-crystal guided drug delivery.