Algae has been promoted as a source of bio fuel. What if algae could also be a source for hydrogen? It could change the economics completely.

Ben Hankamer, director of the Solar Biofuels Consortium, is leading an international team experimenting with a new genetically modified algal strain that appears able to make significant amounts of 90 percent pure hydrogen, while also producing oil for biofuel or other purposes. However, they’re genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and currently restricted to the lab.

While algae emit a small amount of hydrogen naturally during photosynthesis, the new strain has been specifically modified to do so at large scale.

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