http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization
I was shown this today by a friend. This thermal depolymerization pretty interesting stuff and is exactly what the earth did over millions of years. Why isn't this technology being fast tracked? It solves a lot of our problems:
1)What do we do with our garbage?
2)How do we efficiently sort the recyclable waste we generate?
3)How do we eliminate foreign oil dependence
4)How do we efficiently produce energy

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http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/story.php?r...007&itemno=300

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dang, thats pretty cool stuff. If it is a business that can be profitable, you can bet it will be done.

 

its going to be bad *** when petroleum is replaced with something like this, that benefits the nation financially...rather than two big huge companies and a sheik.

 

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Good read. I really can't see a feasible means of distributing hydrogen as a gas. It's not like CNG has really made any leaps in this field either so why would hydrogen seeing as it's even less compressible than CNG which will liquefy at high enough pressures. Hydrogen will have to be carried in H2 rich hydride solids.

You need to have a subscription to Science Magazine but here is an abstract of such a Dehydrogenase Enzyme used in the reactions in the article above. I would guess the greatest challenge would be keeping the enzyme in it's native form and also protecting the active site from chelators
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...y/316/5824/553