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Rare Microorganism That Produces Hydrogen May Be Key To Tomorrow's Hydrogen Economy
www.sciencedaily.com ^
| 08 July 2008
| Adapted from materials provided by Virginia Tech.
Posted on 07/08/2008 6:58:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Uncledave
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posted on
07/08/2008 6:58:38 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
To: Red Badger
Learning to control the mechanisms of life will have a bigger impact than controlling the atom....X1000.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:02:08 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Red Badger
Hydrogen can be easily converted to electrical and mechanical energy without any production of carbon dioxide, But isn't water vapor an even bigger greenhouse gas?
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:02:59 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
To: Red Badger
... cellulose-based high-temperature hydrogen production process ... The high temperature part of this may still mean that production of hydrogen still consumes more energy that the hydrogen product provides.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:04:19 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: Red Badger
If the scientists are good, the by-product will be beer.
To: Red Badger
Hydrogen can be easily converted to electrical and mechanical energy without any production of carbon dioxide, When the cellulose is broken down to produce the hydrogen, what happens to the carbon? For every Kilogram of hydrogen in cellulose, there is 7.2 kg of carbon.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:09:15 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Red Badger
They found Desulfurococcus fermentans in the Uzon Caldera on the Kamchatka Peninsula, an isolated spit of land in eastern Siberia Allow me to be the first to link this to the Tunguska Event of 1908.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:10:57 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Et si omnes ego non)
To: thackney
I’d assume that the organism uses the carbon for building its own structure reproducing itself.............
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:12:14 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
To: Cold Heart
Hydrogen bubbles in your beer?.........NO SMOKING!................
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:13:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
To: Cold Heart
If the scientists are good, the by-product will be beer.Well, they might be able to use the hydrogen to make beer fizzy, without carbonation. However, I suspect the desire is to produce large quantities of hydrogen for fuel cells.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:13:50 AM PDT
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: sionnsar
But isn't water vapor an even bigger greenhouse gas? Bingo!
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:14:21 AM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Obama reach across the aisle? He's so far to the left, he'll need a roadmap to FIND the aisle.)
To: Red Badger
Now suppose we produce Hydrogen by the quadzillion cubic foot per year. Some of that Hydrogen is going to escape, and go into the upper reaches of the atmosphere and even be lost into space, since it is so light. Then the oxygen that would normally be bound to that hydrogen will be left sitting around with nothing to do.
So, what is going to have a greater effect on life and the environment, elevated inert CO2 or hightly reactive Oxygen?
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:15:48 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(Al Gore wants YOU to live like the Flintstones while HE lives like the Jetsons.)
To: sionnsar
Did anyone figure the effect of all that new water vapor?
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:16:20 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
To: Red Badger
Biswarup Mukhopadhyay This guy's name even sounds like a digestive process....
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:16:50 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Red Badger
Wow.
This is a highly significant finding.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:18:09 AM PDT
by
djf
(I don't believe in perpetual motion. Perpetual mutton, that's another thing entirely!)
To: sionnsar
But isn't water vapor an even bigger greenhouse gas?Shhhh!!! You'll spoil all the fun!
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:19:52 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
("Yes, I have been drinking. Why do you ask?" #1 on the list of "Things heard from McCain voters")
To: bmwcyle
Did anyone figure the effect of all that new water vapor?Isn't water vapor the mother of all greenhouse gasses?
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:20:17 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Now get out there and spread some liberty.)
To: Red Badger
I would not make such an assumption.
It seems to me an article claiming a reduction in Carbon Dioxide output via this method would at least give a clue where the carbon goes.
If consumed by the organism, does it grow forever larger? Or does it cycle and die off. If it dies, what happens to the carbon as the organism breaks down.
This is the same fallacy of using trees as a carbon sink. Only if the lumber is harvest and forever kept intact is the carbon contained. If the wood eventually rots, the carbon is released as Carbon Dioxide.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:21:14 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: gridlock
The source of the Oxygen in cellulose is first pulled from the air and water. It is only cycling that which already exists.
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posted on
07/08/2008 7:23:16 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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