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Hydrogen production comes naturally to ocean microbe

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Cyanobacterium gives off hydrogen as by-product of day-to-day processes.

A seemingly unremarkable ocean microbe turns out to be a multitasker — it can not only photosynthesize, but can also produce large amounts of hydrogen, opening up a potential way to make the gas cheaply for fuel.

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  1. Bandyopadhyay, A., Stöckel, J., Min, H., Sherman, L. A. & Pakrasi, H. B. Nature Commun. doi:10.1039/ncomms1139 (2010).

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  1. Katharine Sanderson
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Sanderson, K. Hydrogen production comes naturally to ocean microbe. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.673

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