Starches are a type of sugar
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Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 9:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Bug Power
Keith Addison wrote:
> At BIOCAP Canada's First National Conference in February 2005, a
> research team at the Wastewater Technology Centre and the University
of
> Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, presented a poster describing a prototype
> process for producing substantial amounts of hydrogen as well as
methane
> from potato waste [1].
This is very interesting. I've experimented with using bacteria
to
produce hydrogen in an anaerobic environment, and it works well if the
feed stock is sugar based. I wasn't aware they were capable of
breaking down starches. Bacteria are amazing little creatures!
robert luis rabello
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