Will They Try to Make Us Pay for Breathable Air?

Our breathing may be the next commercial frontier, and clean air may be the new bottled water.

By: Tessa Lena

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Recently, Australian researchers discovered an enzyme that can be used to produce electricity out of thin air

• The enzyme, called Huc, is produced by a common soil bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis

• While the research is new, according to the scientists, there is a possibility of producing the enzyme on a massive scale allowin…