American researchers have learned how to extract hydrogen from sewage

At the University of Oregon (USA), the technology of extracting hydrogen from sewage. Researchers have reduced the cost of fuel gas to the mark under the U.S. Department of Energy: two to three dollars per equivalent gallon (4.5 liters) of gasoline. In translation into Russian rubles and liters, it means the cost of fuel about 18 rubles per liter, which is comparable to the cost of obtaining bioethanol.

The main advantage of the new bioreactor (hydrogen is produced by microbiological through the life of specially selected micro-organisms) is, according to developers, the ability to parallel with the receipt of gas to produce effluent treatment. Laboratory prototype installation can theoretically be turned into a module for the construction of water treatment plants, which could take as runoff from residential neighborhoods, both rich in organic matter and plums food and forest products industry. The work will install hydrogen and clean water.

As highlighted one of the researchers, the problem of shortage of raw materials for new technology to humanity is clearly not worth it.