As such it is likely that a number of different alternatives will
be required, providing energy for a specific task in specialized ways in various situations.
The discovery that bacteria can be used to produce electricity from waste and renewable biomass [1-3] has
gained much attention. Recently the increased interest in microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology was
highlighted by the naming of Geobacter sulfurreducens KN400, a bacterial strain capable of high
current production, as one of the top 50 most important inventions for 2009 by Time Magazine