Originally published January 31 2005
A biotechnology company says that it can produce hydrogen fuel inexpensively
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
One of the problems with using hydrogen as a fuel is how to get it. Though it is plentiful, it is usually found in compounds, such as water, and it is difficult to retrieve. Infectech, a biotechnology firm, says that it could use Clostridia bacteria to produce hydrogen. Since one of the byproducts Clostridia creates is hydrogen, it seems that nature can do the work to create the needed fuel.
Never has there been a more important time for both these new energy leaders to confront historic high natural gas rates, recently high gasoline prices, and record US trade deficits in which energy imports are at the top of that list.
Through the Department of Energy, the Bush Administration has appeared more interested in producing hydrogen through "clean coal" or nuclear power, but that inclination hasn't stopped a variety of proposals from making themselves heard.
One of the latest -- and decidedly less conventional - methods of producing hydrogen comes from a biotechnology company called Infectech.
The Pennsylvania-based company, which predominantly develops diagnostic kits for infectious diseases, is proposing the development of a bioreactor that would use the company's patented bacterial culturing methods in order to produce hydrogen.
It doesn't reliably exist in a pure form anywhere on earth and therefore must be broken from other molecules like oxygen, in the case of water, or carbon, in the case of hydrocarbons like coal or natural gas.
With commercialization in mind, the company has signed an agreement for a feasibility study with the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania to develop this bioreactor.
The company believes the most likely method for low cost production of massive quantities of hydrogen as an alternate energy source is hydrogen combustion using Clostridia bacteria, which produces hydrogen as a by-product.
Bacteria generated hydrogen can be securely converted into a storage and distribution medium by borrowing carbon from atmosphere, (eg methanol/ethanol, even diesel!).
I believe Dow Corning filed a patent over 20 years ago for a ceramic seive that was used to only allow pure hydrongen through in a similar hydrogen generating process using a warm water solution with Bacteria emmitting Hydrogen as a biproduct of their digestive process...
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