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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
Oh, the algaey produces hydrogen. The way I heard it today from someone watching Glenn Beck [I'd never degrade myself so far as to watch it] he said they were using just any algae.
But you'd do better to cut foreign oil dependence by hydrogen fuel cars, electric cars and/or hydro-electric cars. Other options include methane collected from the Gulf of Mexico [produced by bacteria on the gulf floor and suspected in many Bermuda Triangle disappearances]. The reason why I think methane is valid is because combusting that turns a greater greenhouse gas into a lesser, CO2.
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http://www.wired.com/science/discove.../2002/08/54456
A microscopic green algae -- known to scientists as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, and to regular folk as pond scum -- was discovered more than 60 years ago to split water into hydrogen and oxygen under controlled conditions. A recent breakthrough in controlling the algae's hydrogen yield has prompted a Berkeley, California, company to try to be first to commercialize production.
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This is an interesting concept, pond scum beats oil......
