The discovery could pave the way for devices that can generate electricity from the air.
Scientists from the Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Australia have extracted an enzyme that can turn hydrogen into electricity, paving the way for a possible source of unlimited clean energy.The team’s study was based on the established science that many types of bacteria consumed hydrogen from the atmosphere where other nutrients were scarce.
A second team member, Dr Rhys Grinter, said that the enzyme — which they have dubbed Huc — was “extraordinarily” efficient at consuming the hydrogen and converting it into electricity, including below atmospheric levels, where hydrogen’s concentration is only at 0.00005%. “It is astonishingly stable. It is possible to freeze the enzyme or heat it to 80°C, and it retains its power to generate energy,” said Kropp.Huc can theoretically function as a natural battery to generate sustained electrical current using only the air or by adding hydrogen to increase its output.“Once we produce Huc in sufficient quantities, the sky is quite literally the limit for using it to produce clean energy,” said Dr Grinter.
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