In following our previous "pig poop" blog entry, we've come across an article about a professor and his staff of graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) that have found a way to extract oil from swine manure.

Researchers have found an alternative for separating water into hydrogen and oxygen. Typically this is done with electrolysis, however, now it can be done with only solar energy and blood, possibly paving a new way for creating hydrogen gas for use as fuel in the future.