Scientists discover Hydrogen producing bacteria
- Scientists have found a new species of bacterium which cleans up
the environment and produces hydrogen, an element which may in the
future reduce the world's dependency on oil.
- The bacterium Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans was discovered in
Soap Lake Washington by a team of researchers from the Missouri
University of Science and Technology.
- It can "produce hydrogen under saline and alkaline conditions in
amounts that rival genetically modified organisms," said head
researcher Dr. Melanie Mormile.
- Mormile, a microbial ecology of extreme environments expert,
found the Bacterium’s capability by accident when she was searching
for bacteria that could aid in the task of cleaning up the
environment, especially the extremophiles which live in Soap Lake.
- An extremophile is a kind of microorganism which lives in
extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity or chemically concentrated
environments.
- She was focused on Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans because it
has the metabolic capability to live under conditions which are
usually prevalent in contaminated waste sites.
- Mormile and her team discovered that the new species of
bacterium is capable of producing hydrogen and 1, 3-propanediol in
environments with high pH and salinity conditions.
- "It would be great if we got liters and liters of production of
hydrogen," Mormile said. "However, we have not been able to scale up
yet."
- Currently the infrastructure isn’t present for gasoline to be
replaced by hydrogen as an energy source. But in the future it may
become a solution to world’s problem of ever dwindling fossil-fuels.
- The bacterium’s other product 1, 3-propenediol, an organic
compound, can be used in industrial products such as coatings,
laminates, adhesives and composites or even as a solvent or
antifreeze.
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