Process Makes Diesel Fuel From Sugar
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By Anonymous  The soaring prices of oil and natural gas have sparked a race to make transportation fuels from plant matter instead of petroleum.
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Fuel refiners and distributors comply with the law and make ultra low sulfur diesel readily available at the pump. According to the EPA, about 85 percent of highway diesel filling stations offer ULSD. In Autopia.
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a way to produce a truly carbon-neutral fuel using carbon dioxide removed from the air as the raw material.
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Mobile firms turn to biodiesel to generate power for their  networks in unconnected, rural India.
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Two new facilities use solar power to produce hydrogen and biofuels, showing progress in the quest to add a little sun to your fuel tank. In Autopia.
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Fools share their thoughts on ethanol and energy.
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Sugarcane farming has made the country's ethanol competitive with gasoline&#8212;but some say a biofuel boom could mean bust for Amazon rain forests.
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Life & style: On a London industrial estate, 25,000 litres of used cooking oil are turned into biodiesel every month - so why the flak from environmentalists?
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--Call it the sugar diet.   A University of Puget Sound botanist and her students are testing the sweetener's restorative powers on the South Sound's vulnerable short-grass prairies.
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Fans would be more likely to try ethanol made in the USA if their NASCAR heroes used the fuel, according to a GM VP. Plus: The EU agrees to base emissions tax on the size of the emissions, not the vehicle. In Autopia.
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Researchers yesterday unveiled a new fuel: clean, green and also good in a salad dressing. Sunflower oil is light in taste and rich in vitamin E, and Valerie Dupont of the University of Leeds believes it could
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Karl Jacob has a car that goes to 220 mph on ethanol.
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Science & environment: Concerns about adverse environmental impacts prompt review of drive to run vehicles on biofuels
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Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum--I'm the million dollar microbe
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Safeway's fleet of more than 1,000 trucks nationwide will run on cleaner-burning biodiesel fuel, the grocery chain said yesterday, the latest step in an initiative to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Brazil's sugar cane provides the ethanol that fuels eight out of every 10 new Brazilian cars. Bush wants an alliance with the planet's undisputed renewable energy leader. By the Associated Press.
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The government awarded $385 million in grants last week aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. What's surprising is that half of the six projects chosen will use a process first discovered almost a century ago to turn coal into a gas.