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I was shocked about "electric rocks" but it seems to be just a fancy word for "metallic minerals".
The article also says
I think I have seen some video about an Australian entrepreneur who wanted to "harvest" those things off the seafloor, to great concern of environmentalists.
I guess it was unexpected that rocks can create a functional battery, and not have been drained after all this time.
How cool is that the guy’s surname is Geiger? I mean, it’s not radioactive but… well I think it’s cool.
"Geiger" is the colloquial German word for somebody who plays the fiddle.