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Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria Could Provide Clean Energy

Posted by timothy on from the for-my-motorhome-of-the-future dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and North Carolina State University (NC State) have developed cooperatively a new 'green' technology which could lead to clean production of hydrogen from nitrogen-fixing bacteria."

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  1. Clean? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    So we're going to be using some other creatures shit for our fuel? Hardly clean. It's shit!

    1. Re:Clean? by soloport · · Score: 4, Funny

      So we're going to be using some other creatures shit for our fuel? Hardly clean. It's shit!

      If you want to define "clean" by that standard, you may want to avoid beer.

  2. Re:Still need sugars by CorporateSuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure, their waste product is hydrogen, but they still need 'food', in this case, certain sugars.

    Now, if the waste product they were looking for was methane and the food was sugars, we could harness children as an energy source!

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  3. A twosome? hmmmm. Bacteria friend finder. by Andr+T. · · Score: 4, Funny

    The link to the website talks about heat-loving bacteria like near volcanoes.

    My name: Bacillus Vulcani
    Likes: heat, being near a vulcanoe, being inside human beings.
    Dislikes: penicilin, cold.
    Ideal date: meeting someone while in a tongue during a kiss, watching a beautiful vulcanoe explosion.


    My name: hydrogenProducin'2008
    Likes: producing hydrogen. Spell games.
    Dislikes: tetracycline, human's immune system.
    Ideal date: in the end, we should get nasty and produce some heat

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  4. What effect DOES it have on the bacteria? by Behrooz · · Score: 4, Funny

    What effect does this have on the bacteria?

    "Think of the bacteria! Oh, won't somebody please think of the bacteria!"

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    1. Re:What effect DOES it have on the bacteria? by moniker127 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You a PETB member?

    2. Re:What effect DOES it have on the bacteria? by Adriax · · Score: 3, Funny

      Mmmm, yogurt...

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  5. Re:Still need sugars by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course, if TFA says, they can find/discover/developa organisms that can break cellulose down to these sugars, then things are going to get *very* interesting.

    Interesting, as in every house, tree, book, and pair of blue jeans being eaten by some cellulolytic bacteria that escaped the lab?

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  6. Re:A twosome. by MarkGriz · · Score: 2, Funny

    N2 + 8H+ + 8e- + 16 ATP -----> 2NH3 + H2 + 16ADP + 16 Pi

    Let me get this straight... we get free hydrogen AND pie ?! Sign me up.

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