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Chementator: Feed sugar to these bacteria and they’ll produce hydrogen  

| By Edited by Gerald Ondrey

Azotobacter are nitrogen-fixing bacteria that do a useful job in soil by converting N 2 to ammonia. As a side reaction they also produce hydrogen, most of which they oxidize for their own energy consumption. In a project of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s…