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New Hope For Our Fuel Consumption
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cbond35
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1)Tiny microbes that live inside termites may one day help cure the world's energy woes, according to scientists.
The researchers are trying to understand how bacteria that help termites digest wood and other plants release the hydrogen that's trapped in the material.
"We don't understand the full details of how the process occurs," said Jared Leadbetter, an environmental microbiologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "But once we learn more about it, many things become possible."
For example, he says, biotech engineers could mass-produce the tiny microbes for hydrogen production on an industrial scale.
The hydrogen could then power hydrogen fuel cells, a type of battery that emits only water.
But reaching large-scale production, Leadbetter cautioned, "is a pretty tall order." It would depend on how well the research is funded and how it progresses over the coming years, he said.
Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley agreed there are hurdles to overcome, but he said the potential applications are "very positive."
"Neat stuff can happen in this area," he said.
Kammen imagines a day when "little digesters"—a termite germ-derived technology—sit in people's garages and process piles of woody waste to produce enough hydrogen to power cars and homes.
2)Toups Technology Licensing (TTL) announced the scientific documentation of AquaFuel Technology: AquaFuel is a reliable, inexpensive, non-polluting gas which is a viable, immediately available replacement for fossil-based fuels. TTL licenses technologies primarily in the energy, environment and natural resource market segments. The Company also makes acquisitions of existing companies which compliment TTL's technology mix.
Since November 1, 1997, the Company has been engaged in scientific documentation relating to the characteristics of the AquaFuel Technology.
The AquaFuel process results in the production of a gas originally identified by patent owner William H. Richardson Jr. The AquaFuel process encompasses an electric discharge on carbon rods within ordinary, sea or other forms of water. The discharge decomposes the carbon rods, separates the water and creates a plasma of mostly ionized hydrogen, oxygen and carbon atoms at about 5,000 degrees C.
The atoms combine in various forms, cool down in the water surrounding the discharge and bubble to the surface where they are collected and stored.
AquaFuel is easy to produce anywhere desired because of the simplicity of the equipment.
AquaFuel can be produced in a large column with consumer-oriented equipment, while unlimited volume can be produced on industrial plants.
All bacteriological activities ceased to exist in 3 gallons of sewage following 1 minute of exposure to the AquaFuel apparatus.
The AquaFuel process provides a new viable form of recycling sewage either by municipalities or by individual households.
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