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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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