New York Flora Association Blog

Check out this research at Cambridge University that uses moss in biological fuel cells to produce electricity! Spoiler alert: it’s actually symbiotic bacteria in the soil that are powering things up using organic compounds released by the photosynthesizing bryophytes.

Read the short article here: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-hidden-power-of-moss/

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