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The headline is seriously misleading, the energy comes from sunlight which is used to split water into hydrogen. And the bacteria use the hydrogen as an energy
by fabian2k 10y ago
The headline is seriously misleading, the energy comes from sunlight which is used to split water into hydrogen. And the bacteria use the hydrogen as an energy source to create biomass from CO2. That biomass is mostly in burnable fuel.
The article is very interesting, but the headline makes it sound like a fundamental misunderstanding of thermodynamics.
- gherkin0 10y ago> The headline is seriously misleading I think it's more a difference between technical vocabulary and colloquial vocabulary. I think a lot of people use the word "energy" to to refer to something more like "fuel." That's how you get terms like "energy production" which include activities like drilling for oil.