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Mitochondria

In Our Time: Science

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The Power of the Mitochondria

Inside our mitochondria on this huge area of membrane, all the time we have these tiny little turbines whizzing around a few hundred times a second. And that huge amount of charge and concentration across that membrane, this lightning bolt that we store there is then stored as an intermediate energy form. The protons come back through this astonishing machines called the ATP synthase which was determined by John Walker in K-A. So it's an incredible cooperation between these two systems that generates all life.

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