This article reminds of Robert Shapiro's simple chemical loops to make energy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100202101245.htm

Another article discusses mitochondria ,and when they might have been incorportated into eukaryote cells.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100205091829.htm

Both of these are fascinating, but the vents theory is certainly not THAT groundbreaking... I was learning about extremophiles ten years ago (thank you discovery) and tube worms have long been looked at as a candidate for early life.

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This article reminds of Robert Shapiro's simple chemical loops to make energy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100202101245.htm

Here is a pdf essay which the above link discusses in brief. It is nine pages long:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123264090/PDFSTART

And here is a theistic interpretation of the same material:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/Back+beginning/2530761/story.html