Do you have
a news article? One you wrote or
found that should be included in our archive? Contact us and
we may include it here.
Thank you for helping
to keep our website current and usefull for everyone.
Washington-Microscopic green algae may soon be pumping out clean and efficient hydrogen gas to fuel the world's cars and power plants. Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Labs. in Tenn. are turning to nature, which long ago figured out how to make energy from water and sunlight. In this case algae,
Chlamydomonas reinhardtil, have a special trick that allows them to make hydrogen- an enzyme called hydrogenase that splits water into its component parts of hydrogen and oxygen.
The algae need sulfur to grow and photosynthesize.However scientists found that when they starved the algae of sulfur, they switched into hydrogenase mode.
Search
