Today, genetic modification efforts are much more directed.
Davy on the decomposition of the solutions of salts by the voltaic current were turned to account in the water voltameter telegraph of Sdmmering and the modification of it proposed by Schweigger, and in a similar method proposed by Coxe, in which a solution of salts was substituted for water.
The wall of the tube is very thin and delicate, and does not seem to be composed of cellulose or any modification of it.
A very interesting modification was also proposed in the same letter, viz.
In any case, there are other ways to use genetic modification to get energy.