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Who's building the chocolate and poop car?

Treehugger TV thinks it's done a nice segment on Who Killed the Electric Car?, and indeed it has: In addition to long swaths of footage from the film itself, there's a short interview with the guy who directed the documentary, Chris Paine. The only problem is that I'm hearing everywhere I turn about the Electric Car movie (and that's a good thing -- I'm just saying, you know), and Treehugger has some less-circulated news today on the same segment . . . really. Amazing.

Ready?

Chocolate-covered caramels + E. Coli = HYDROGEN.

It's true. "British scientists fed Escherichia coli bacteria a diluted mix of waste caramel and nougat," reads the initial news report last month. "The germs tucked into the sugar and in the process produced hydrogen, using their own enzyme, called hydrogenase. The hydrogen was used to power a fuel cell, generating enough electricity to drive a small fan."

So waste chocolate, which generally goes in the trash, could be combined with bacteria and sold as energy.

GM, get busy. When our governor in California starts using candy and poop to run his Hummer, now that's when I'll be impressed.

June 28, 2006 |

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Wow! Thats really gross, but interesting. Can't wait to see what happens!

Posted by:Chocoholic | June 28, 2006 at 12:39 PM

Belay that order, GM.

They would be better advised, although in my opinion still not well advised, to get busy on an electric drive/external combustion engine hybrid that could burn anything biological -- chocolate, switchgrass, whatever. There's a lot more energy left before bacteria take their cut; hugely more if the bacterial product is hydrogen.

The hydrogen car timeline: a lot of prototypes and a lot of years for zero (0) sales, including zero to the governor of California.

--- G. R. L. Cowan, former hydrogen fan
Boron: internal combustion without exhaust gas

Posted by:G. R. L. Cowan | June 28, 2006 at 01:00 PM

jack-ass

Posted by:gabby | June 28, 2006 at 03:51 PM

Thanks for the visit and the link, G.R.L. Enlightening as always.

Posted by:Judith Lewis | June 28, 2006 at 11:40 PM

this crap made knowscence i can"t even read it

Posted by:alex | November 10, 2007 at 04:11 PM

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