A Florida State University researcher played a major role in a new discovery in how to
produce pure hydrogen, a green energy fuel, by splitting water.
Bob Holmes suggests that the bacterium Syntrophus would
produce pure hydrogen for us, were it not for its attendant methanogenic...
Not exact matches
Professor Edwards added: «Instead of burning fossil fuels, leading to CO2, we use them to generate
hydrogen, which with fuel cells
produces electric power and
pure water.
A chemical reaction between oxygen and
hydrogen produces the electric power, and when the transportation fuel is
pure hydrogen, the only resulting emission is water vapor.
The plant will also, in theory,
produce a stream of
pure hydrogen fuel and a stream of carbon dioxide in a form ready to pump into the earth for long - term storage so it doesn't heat the climate.
Most auto makers agree that fuel - cell cars powered by
hydrogen produced with renewable energy sources are the end game since they would rely on no fossil fuels and emit only
pure water.
Overcoming some of the obstacles that have hindered petri - dish - to - gas - pump schemes in the past, scientists are finding ways to
produce high - octane fuel and even
pure hydrogen from co-opted algae.
The oxygen
produced can be sold where chemically
pure oxygen is needed or used to make CO and
hydrogen from natural gas.