biohazard Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:00:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Algae Making Hydrogen – solution or biohazard? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-making-hydrogen-solution-or-biohazard-20080327/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/algae-making-hydrogen-solution-or-biohazard-20080327/#respond Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:00:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/08/algae-making-hydrogen-solution-or-biohazard/ Recently, a team of biologists demonstrated that some algae, named Chlamydomonas reinhardtii can produce hydrogen in a specific environment. Normally, these bacterias produce oxygen, but the scientists modified their genes, added copper to block the oxygen production, so the cells’ photosynthesis begins to synthesize hydrogenase and produces hydrogen. The algae also need light in order […]

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