Engineered virus to split water molecules
I think that splitting the hydrogen off of water molecules for fuel is pretty darned clever, however;
The folks doing this research: the Foresight Institute » MIT’s Belcher uses engineered virus to split water need to go and read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
in which Ice-Nine, an engineered crystal, a new type of ice which freezes solid at high temperatures, has the capacity of acting as a seed crystal which threatens a chain reaction and the world’s water supply before they set this virus loose, just, you know, in case.
