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Anyone can do it, but the problem is doing it efficiently enough so that it competes with the price of Oil.


1. Grow some algae in a vat using photosynthesis to turn CO2 and sunlight into sugar.

2. Dump out the algae into a filter, collect the sugars.

3. Feed the sugar to a rat in a cage. The rat turns a crank, producing electricity.

4. Have the electricity run through water, separating the oxygen from the hydrogen.

5. Collect up the Hydrogen and put it in the fuel cell.


The only problem is that the amount of energy we need to roll back INTO the process of making the energy is so large that this process won't compete with oil.

How to do it efficiently? Well get your top geneticists on the ball at editing the DNA code to get the algae to produce hydrogen instead of sugar. It can be done. It's just very hard.

This guy Chris Martenson talks about the problem:

http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse

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