Great News Network  
home | news by category | news by region | rate incoming news | submit news | rss
   advanced
Username:   Password:    Remember | Register 

0
greats
 
great!


Plants give up their secret of splitting water

source: HindustanTimes.com | Feb 06, 04 | submitted by Ryan

Washington D.C. - Researchers said on Thursday they had taken another step toward understanding how plants split water into hydrogen and oxygen atoms — which may provide a cheap way to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel.

Producing hydrogen from water is the stuff of science fiction — and some comments by US President George W Bush. But the team at Imperial College London and Japan Science and Technology Corp. in Yokohama said they had taken the best pictures yet of the plant structures that do it every day.

continue reading... article opens in new window 
Broken link? Search for the story here
 

"The Great News Network exists to provide that vital piece of the puzzle to the individual - stories of positive change happening here and now." - Ryan Logtenberg, Founder GNN
about gnn | become a news submitter | contact gnn | site map | archives | gnn mobile | ©2003-2006 great news network
design by yellowseed