[geeks] electric cars

[Mike Hebel]

On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:31 PM, der Mouse wrote:

>>> Perhaps someone will engineer bacteria to live off assorted trash
>>> (eg the stuff they've been making biodiesel from) and give off
>>> hydrogen.  If it can be done with enough efficiency, it could make
>>> hydrogen a viable automative fuel from an energy perspective.
>> You mean like how we now capture methane from landfills?
>
> Someone does that and uses the methane as an energy source?  Then yes,
> like that, but with bacteria designed to produce methane, or hydrogen,
> or whatever, rather than the random opportunistic cultures we have now.

That would be Biomethane and there are a number of farms all across the
country that do that.

Oooh!  Good Sigmonster!

Mike Hebel
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