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Organism Uses Solar Energy to Produce Hydrogen

Posted by timothy on from the beans-could-power-a-methane-economy dept.

Stan Freeman writes "CNET is reporting that Stanford University researchers have discovered a soil microorganism that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. They are trying to adapt this naturally occurring anaerobic organism into one that can survive in a more normal environment. There is some more information on biological water splitting here on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) web site."

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  1. Not that impressive by daeley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Big deal -- I use bio energy to produce methane every day.

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  2. it will eat all the water by mozkill · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is what the Martians did and look what it did to the water on their planet!!

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  3. great .. by torpor · · Score: 3, Funny

    .. i for one welcome our new "bug that ate the oceans" overlord, and would like to remind them that, as a useless bag of mostly water, i'd be quite happy to disappear into a large puff of gas, at a moments terrible andromeda-zone notice ..

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    1. Re:great .. by Alsee · · Score: 2, Funny

      useless bag of mostly water

      Ok, you receive 10 geek demerits.
      Go directly outside, do not play go, do not collect 200 quatloos.

      The correct geek referrence is ugly bag of mostly water.

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  4. oh boy.... by dvdsmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can see the next SciFi Channel movie now,

    DROUGHT

    with the usually plot line; older scientist's manipulating the DNA of the organism results in disaster. Enter the late 20's, early 30's young male prodigy who saves the day, along with the help of the older scientist's 20-something daughter. BTW, the old fart dies.

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