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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. 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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