*Harvesting* hydrogen from The Black Sea

[theholycow]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ea-energy.html

The Black Sea, an isolated inland sea in Eastern Europe, has been devoid of life—except for a species of hardy "extremophile" bacteria—for decades due to pollution carried by rivers.

The influx of toxic waste from 17 European countries has contributed to a decline in oxygen in the water. This in turn has created high concentrations of hydrogen sulfide gas in the sea.

But if hydrogen could be harvested from this poisonous gas, it could mean a new form of clean energy for Europe, researchers say.

Sounds like vaporware (lol, pun), but who knows, maybe...

[transshop]

Sounds like it could be legitimate yet years away in practice. There is much research now in using bacteria and sugars to produce hydrogen.