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"Automutt" <automutt(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>Angela Belcher and team at MIT have tweaked a bacterial virus to
> serve as a scaffolding to: attract and bind with molecules of a
> catalyst (the team used iridium oxide) and a biological pigment
> (zinc porphyrins). The viruses became wire-like devices that could
> very efficiently split the oxygen from water molecules.

Where does the energy come from to grow their virus and split the oxygen and
hydrogen? Presumably it's solar?