{"id":5707,"date":"2012-03-19T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2012-03-19T08:14:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T12:14:03","slug":"morning-read-snail-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/19\/morning-read-snail-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Snail power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5709\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/03\/19\/morning-read-snail-power\/snailpower\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5709\" title=\"snailpower\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/snailpower-336x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/snailpower-336x450.jpg 336w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/snailpower-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/snailpower-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/03\/snailpower.jpg 1494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a>Who needs hydro dams and nuclear power plants!\u00a0 Pah on those hydrofracking projects!\u00a0 I say snails are the power source of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Okay &#8211; actually this is serious stuff, an effort by Clarkson University to research tiny &#8220;biofuel cells&#8221; that could eventually power things like implanted medical devices.\u00a0 This from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20120319\/NEWS05\/703199900\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A team of scientists at Clarkson University has developed technology to turn an ordinary snail into a living, moving battery.<\/p>\n<p>The  research was published earlier this month in the Journal of the  American Chemical Society with Evgeny Katz, Milton Kerker chaired  professor of colloid science at Clarkson, as the lead author.<\/p>\n<p>The  technology involves tiny implants, called biofuel cells, charged by  chemical reactions in the snail\u2019s blood. Though a snail generates only a  tiny amount of electrical charge, the electricity is accumulated in a  device called a condenser, which can then power another small device if  needed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20120319\/NEWS05\/703199900\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs hydro dams and nuclear power plants!\u00a0 Pah on those hydrofracking projects!\u00a0 I say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,883,5670,4786],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}