Cyanobacteria genes (blue-green algae) have been shown by scientists to produce both hydrogen and ethanol. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found that a certain strain of cyanobacteria is on a circadian rhythm and has a rare linear chromosome. By day the blue-green algae works at photosynthesis including sugar production. By night, the • Read More »
Search Results for: algae
Volcano Yields Ancient Hydrogen Producing Organism
July 8, 2008 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | Comments Off on Volcano Yields Ancient Hydrogen Producing Organism | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.The new hydrogen economy may just be jumpstarted by a very old microorganism that has been garnered from the bowels of a volcano. Virginia Tech has teamed up with the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Russian Academy of Sciences to develop and refine the hydrogen producing qualities of the billions year old • Read More »
Exxon Creating Alternatives to Oil?
December 13, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 5 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Vehicles.What is happening now? Has the world gone completely mad? Recently, it looks like the Big Oil companies are creating technology to help consumers use less oil. What up with this? Shell Oil has announced that they will be using Hawaiian algae to create biodiesel fuel. And, Exxon has announced two different technologies that will • Read More »
Alternative Methods for Producing Hydrogen
October 30, 2007 | By Hydro Kevin Kantola | 8 Comments | Filed in: Hydrogen Fuel Production.As I search across the Internet and especially the blogosphere, I see many critics of the hydrogen economy stating that hydrogen is generally produced by simple electrolysis of water and this method takes too much energy for hydrogen to be competitive in the marketplace. Most of the time, this is taken by others as fact, • Read More »