[geeks] electric cars

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Fri Oct 20 22:31:56 CDT 2006


>> 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.

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