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This is an idea I have thought about for a few months. ATP is clearly a base, right? And, water forms a gel at contact zones, right? This gel excludes protons, and protons can be electrostatically substituted with potassium, you see this in hypo- or hyperkalemia causing intracellular and extracellular acidosis respectively. For example, in hyper- or hypo aldosteronism. What if the cell is creating an equivalent of charge separation by shifting the excluded protons from the gel and onto ATP, through substituting them with potassium? Discharge of this potential energy then releases electrical current, that ends up forming H2O from the protons released from ATP during ATP hydrolysis. This H2O then ionizes again as this "battery" recharges, by regenerating the ATP using sugar.