Scientists just discovered an 'astonishing' way to create energy out of thin air: 'The sky is quite

[Judi Lynn]

Scientists just discovered an ‘astonishing’ way to create energy out of thin air: ‘The sky is quite literally the limit’

Story by Nick Paschal • Yesterday 6:00 AM

t’s a magical time for clean energy production. Methods like wind and solar power are leading the way, but they may soon have competition because — similar to a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat — scientists in Australia have found a way to pull electricity out of thin air.

The magicians in this story are Dr. Rhys Grinter, Ph.D. student Ashleigh Kropp, and Professor Chris Greening from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne, Australia. The scientific journal, Nature, published their findings.

But this is no children’s magic trick. These scientists produced and analyzed a hydrogen-consuming enzyme from a common soil bacterium. The enzyme, called Huc, pulls hydrogen from the atmosphere and converts it into electricity.

Finding alternative power sources is crucial as we work to move away from dirty energy. Mining, drilling, and burning dirty energy sources like coal, crude oil, and natural gas create numerous problems for our health and the planet.

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[ratchiweenie]

1. Now this sounds amazing. Maybe we can finally quit destroying mother earth.

[Goonch]

2. 👇👇👇👁️

[raging moderate]

3. And the sky is NO limit.

So I hope these scientists are right. Thank you, scientists of the world!

[MayReasonRule]

4. Great Catch! Thanks For Posting This

[3Hotdogs]

5. So, how easy is it to consolidate the enzyme? What conditions need to be met?

How is the hydrogen to be captured?

Article says the enzyme can be "grown" quite easily. So maybe this is a breakthrough.

[burrowowl]

6. Very interesting article

[LiberalArkie]

7. I wonder what voltage it produces? If it is in the microvolts or less, it would be kind of useless.

[panader0]

8. "smegmatis" seriously?

[Crazyleftie]

9. is this bacteria

CONTAGIOUS............??????

[ancianita]

10. Looks like the pressure of climate ramps up the innovative side of capitalism in a democratic countr

I'll take the "sky is the limit" any day. Now to scale up the energy conversions and distributions. That's where the government subsidy and oversight has to step in.

[niyad]

11. KNR and thank you for sharing this fascinating information.

[tanyev]

12. Wow. Interesting.

[usonian]

13. I'm waiting for the upcoming hydrogen shortage!

[NNadir]

14. It would be useful to understand the laws of thermodyamics when writing titles.

Half a century of similar rhetoric has generated far more complacency and wishful thinking than energy.

If one thinks solar and wind are "leading the way" one should stop smoking whatever it is that one is smoking.

The original "energy out of thin air" fool was Ayn Rand who also confused fantasy fiction with reality. It's been a problem.

[Permanut]

15. And oxidized hydrogen equals water.

Cool.

[RussBLib]

16. I don't suppose this would work in deep space

...until they discover that dark matter contains some building blocks.....