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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick. Got a minute?

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Developed countries spend about 3 percent of all their electrical power treating wastewater.

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The juice purifies contaminated material so it can be returned safely to the environment.

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Now researchers think they can turn this power drain into a power source.

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Because a new kind of battery uses microbes to produce electricity from wastewater.

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The work is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Like us, some microbes draw their energy from organic matter.

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And wastewater is chock full of such fuel.

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So scientists gave microorganisms polluted water and wired them up.

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When the microbes harvested electrons, the particles traveled through the electronic components to power a battery.

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This system had a net efficiency of 30 percent, about the same as a commercial solar cell.

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In theory, microbial batteries like this one could eventually be made more efficient, producing enough electricity to power the treatment of the wastewater three times over.

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Which gives a whole new meaning to the saying, "Waste not, want not."

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Sophie Bushwick.

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