Here's a lady riding her 1 CowPower organic car.
So this means you drive around with some syrup in your tank, converting it to hydrogen as needed, rather than driving around with a big tank of hydrogen ready to explode? Sounds good.
Then you need another tank to convert cellulose into glucose and things will really be good - organic cars powered by termites and bacteria.
Mrs VS
Who would have ever thoght sugar in the gas tank was a good thing?
Right. And if you want to make pancakes on a camping trip, you don’t need to bring syrup.
Here's a lady riding her 1 CowPower organic car.
Then you need another tank to convert cellulose into glucose and things will really be good - organic cars powered by termites and bacteria.
Polysaccharides like starch and cellulose are used by plants for energy storage and building blocks and are very stable until exposed to enzymes. Just add enzymes to a mixture of starch and water and “the enzymes use the energy in the starch to break up water into only carbon dioxide and hydrogen,” Zhang said.A membrane bleeds off the carbon dioxide and the hydrogen is used by the fuel cell to create electricity. Water, a product of that fuel cell process, will be recycled for the starch-water reactor. Laboratory tests confirm that it all takes place at low temperature--about 86 degrees F--and atmospheric pressure.
. . . The research was based on Zhang’s previous work pertaining to cellulosic ethanol production and the ORNL and University of Georgia researchers’ work with enzymatic hydrogen production.