Re: Electrolysis is not always ludicrous...

Peter Lowrie wrote: 
Dear Mike

Mike McWilliams wrote:

What I would like to see is a manufactured equivalent of the electron transport chain in plants, coupled to a chemical reaction which stores hydrogen in hydrocarbons or even sugars 


...Is this to say that sugar contains Hydrogen, how would one go about
extracting Hydrogen from sugar?

ethanol production... there are some particularly good species which can do this.

I realize that this is going to result in significant losses in each conversion, but starch can be banked more easily than most things.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: HELP!! tomatos, NOT
    ... sugar as a carbon source to the soil to tie up some of the soluble ... But adding sugar is ... new to me for carbon as I think of wood ashes for the carbon. ... the original poster has 2 tomato plants not 200 ...
    (rec.gardens)
  • Re: Electrolysis is not always ludicrous...
    ... > transport chain in plants, coupled to a chemical reaction which stores ... ....Is this to say that sugar contains Hydrogen, ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)
  • Re: Electrolysis is not always ludicrous...
    ... transport chain in plants, coupled to a chemical reaction which stores hydrogen in hydrocarbons or even sugars ... ...Is this to say that sugar contains Hydrogen, ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)