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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. Still need sugars by draco664 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Sure, their waste product is hydrogen, but they still need 'food', in this case, certain sugars.

    Creating these sugars is the energy intensive bit.

    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.