Boffins reckon algae could drive hydrogen highway

James S Murray
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Chemical manipulation could adapt green goo to release usable hydrogen as part of photosynthesis

Several firms are investigating how algae could be used to produce biofuels, but now boffins at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) reckon the unicellular plant could instead...

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