Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria Could Provide Clean Energy 57
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."
Clean? (Score:3, Funny)
So we're going to be using some other creatures shit for our fuel? Hardly clean. It's shit!
Re:Still need sugars (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!
A twosome? hmmmm. Bacteria friend finder. (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
What effect DOES it have on the bacteria? (Score:5, Funny)
What effect does this have on the bacteria?
"Think of the bacteria! Oh, won't somebody please think of the bacteria!"
Re:Still need sugars (Score:5, 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?
Re:What effect DOES it have on the bacteria? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What effect DOES it have on the bacteria? (Score:4, Funny)
Mmmm, yogurt...
Re:Clean? (Score:5, 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.
Re:A twosome. (Score:3, 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.