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A Figure Like That<br />

still recharging itself more than it was<br />

expending. Pretty soon though these<br />

phenomena would slow down very quickly<br />

when the sun dropped below the horizon;<br />

nevertheless one of the microbiologists in the<br />

project had explained to her that, even without<br />

the fusion power of the sun, the ecosystem of<br />

battery had archaea and other microorganisms<br />

that would keep charging the battery overnight<br />

until the sun returned.<br />

The field experiment still needed some time<br />

to confirm that the batteries worked<br />

effectively; luckily, or actually not so luckily as<br />

they had been chosen for this particular reason,<br />

the couple who owned the premises were<br />

scientists - with the wife being an IDP electrical<br />

engineer and the husband a government<br />

botanist who worked with the biotech sector -<br />

so they would notice the differences between<br />

faults in the battery and those in the circuit in<br />

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