Monday, December 05, 2005

Killer gas to Clean fuel

Carbon monoxide + steaming hot water = hydrogen

What a nice way to produce wonderful fuel! It may become reality with the sequencing of the genome of a strange microbe (Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans Z-2901) that lives in boiling hot springs of the volcanic Kunashir island in Russia. It possesses upto five different carbon monoxide dehydrogenases, while most other species found so far have only a single one. This really should be a microbe to look out for in the future.

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