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Mud battery stops marine rust

Electricity from microbes could shield ships and rigs.

Ships, buoys, oil rigs and other ocean-bound steel objects can be protected from rust by plugging them into the seabed, says a team of Argentinian researchers.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on October 26, 2006 06:30 PM |

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