<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jose Cordeiro</b> <<a href="mailto:jose_cordeiro@yahoo.com">jose_cordeiro@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> </span>Just as <a>computer</a> <a>code
</a> is written to create many kinds of <a>software</a>, genetic <a>code<br>> </a>will be written to create many varieties of <a>life</a>, including those that make <a>hydrogen</a><br>> from plants.<br><br>I love it when people know *just* enough to appear really stupid. There are
<br>already many microorganisms that could be viewed as making hydrogen<br>from plants (in anaerobic conditions). Of course it would be a bit tricky to<br>harvest hydrogen from plants as plants normally respire CO2 and O2.
<br>So separating out H2 would be a bit nontrivial. As is the "minor" problem<br>that the H2 is going to want to combine with the O2 to produce H2O.<br><br>If our forward direction is being managed by the people who wrote the summary
<br>for the report then all hope is lost. (If the report is similarly based on people<br>saying things that they know little or nothing about then it isn't worth the paper<br>it is printed on).<br><br>Sigh.<br><br>Robert
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