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One man's pollution is another animals food source
> As the world increasingly considers hydrogen as a potential biofuel,
> technology could benefit from having the genomes of such microbes. “C.
> hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes that can convert
> water and carbon monoxide to hydrogen,” remarks TIGR (The Institute for
> Genomic Research) evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen, senior author of
> the PLoS Genetics study. “So if you're interested in making clean fuels,
> this microbe makes an excellent starting point.”
>
Via Robot Wisdom [1], “Poison + water = hydrogen. New microbial genome shows
how [2]”
This is really cool news, and just goes to show that for any problems we
create, we're clever enough to find a solution.
[1]
http://www.robotwisdom.com/
[2]
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/tifg-
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