[Coral-List] electric bio reef technology

Gene Shinn eshinn at usgs.gov
Wed Apr 6 13:53:54 EDT 2005


Few doubt that mineral accretion to metal substrates can be induced 
with electric currents. What is lacking is a controlled experiment 
that demonstrates that corals actually grow faster when stimulated by 
an electric current. Is anyone doing this? and when will we see the 
results? Gene
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