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Plant Physiol, November 2001, Vol. 127, pp. 740-748

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Hydrogen Production. Green Algae as a Source of Energy1

Anastasios Melis* and Thomas Happe

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, 111 Koshland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3102 (A.M.); and Botanisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Karlrobert-Kreiten-Strasse 13, 53115 Bonn, Germany (T.H.)

Hydrogen gas is thought to be the ideal fuel for a world in which air pollution has been alleviated, global warming has been arrested, and the environment has been protected in an economically sustainable manner. Hydrogen and electricity could team to provide attractive options in transportation and power generation. Interconversion between these two forms of energy suggests on-site utilization of hydrogen to generate electricity, with the electrical power grid serving in energy transportation, distribution utilization, and hydrogen regeneration as needed. A challenging problem in establishing H2 as a source of energy for the future is the renewable and environmentally friendly generation of large quantities of H2 gas. Thus, processes that are presently conceptual in nature, or at a developmental stage in the laboratory, need to be encouraged, tested for feasibility, and otherwise applied toward commercialization.

1 This work was supported in part by the California Energy Commission, Energy Innovations Small Grants Program (grant no. 51235A/99-01-33), by the California Agricultural Experiment Station, and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant no. Ha 2555/1-1).

* Corresponding author; e-mail melis{at}nature.berkeley.edu; fax 510-642-4995.

© 2001 American Society of Plant Physiologists


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