We've got millions of tons of this stuff.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080417/ap_on_bi_ge/farm_scene_waste_as_fuel...

http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/online/news/articles/2008-04/Chemists-revea...

wow. we can grow lots of sugar and cellulose is next!

Sunlight plus bacteria equals hydrogen...

wow.

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8317.html

E coli engineered to produce hydrogen. I guess it had to happen. I wonder how they respond to electricity.

http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/online/news/articles/2008-01/E--coli-advoca...

Wow. people are amazingly inventive.

http://www.physorg.com/news119107136.html

applause!

This is farming bacteria for electricity. They'll eat anything!

http://physorg.com/news118589790.html

Anybody read the Bee today?

http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/story/245634.html

Then there's this! Don't we have a local power authority?

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13000-electric-cars-could-a...

I thought I was joking around.

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8188.html

I haven't heard of any American companies planning anything like this.

http://www.abcmoney.co.uk/news/262007171706.htm

This is a waste of tax dollars.

http://www.physorg.com/news114866922.html

DOE is spending 2.4 million to research hydrogen production using nuclear power. That sounds expensive compared to bacteria, vinegar and a little electricity.

At least both research teams are at Penn State. I hope they do some comparisons.

I know that the Penn State team investigating the microbial electrolysis cell is trying to patent the process and I think they should get all the credit and royalties due them. But can't this discovery be exploited almost immediately.
This is junior high school science with a twist. This should be easy.
We just need fuel cells to feed the hydrogen into and you have a green power plant.

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8142.html

Bank Penn States' share and settle up later.

Any crazy rich folk out there?
We could be the Green Energy Valley.

Crude oil and all synthetic oil will be more valuable in the future as raw materials for plastic than gasoline. We may get to the point where we will be mining our landfills for plastics.
The people of the 21st century need to walk away from hydrocarbons as fuel in the same way people of the 20th century walked away from whale oil and horses.
The current oil/coal/nuclear based energy business structure will not survive. None of the whale oil companies did. They are doing and have done everything they could to maintain their business, of course.

Burning = oxidation

water = hydrogen dioxide

here is another type of 'Mr.Fusion'

Thermal depolymerization (TDP) is a process for the reduction of complex organic materials (usually waste products of various sorts, often known as biomass and plastic) into light crude oil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

Here you go.

Hydrogen Internal Combustion engines:

Ford

http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=18794

BMW

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/06/bmw_and_total_p.html

BMW with Jay Leno:

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage7903.html

Mazda

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8020a.html

More Hydrogen generation ideas:

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12946-cheap-hydrogen-power-...

or

http://www.physorg.com/news114172068.html

or Hydrogen Storage:

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage8074.html

or Fuel Cell materials:

http://www.fuelcellsworks.com/Supppage7903.html

This is one of my favorites! the true end of parallel parking!

http://www.saturnfans.com/Cars/Future/motorinwheels.shtml

http://www.caddybug-usa.com/catalog/hub_motors.php

http://www.greencar.com/features/hubofpower/

How much ag waste do we create each year?
How much energy (money!) does it represent if we had these technologies developed locally.

Could you post links about the Ford and BMW hydrogen projects?

Has anyone heard what Gene (http://www.h2ohydrogene.com) is up to these days?