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Beyond Ethanol: Drop-In Biofuels Squeeze Gasoline From Plants

2013-06-26 18:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Cut southern yellow pine trees are stacked up outside the first commercial cellulosic biorefinery, KiOR's plant in Mississippi. The wood that once fed paper mills will be chipped up, as seen below, and converted directly into gasoline and diesel fuel in a process its advocates say will be more sustainable than corn ethanol. Fred Cannon was working at a Dutch chemical company when he had a conversation with a chemist about the movie Back to the Future-in particular, the scene near the end in which...

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