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News Release 08-056
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Researchers make breakthrough in creating gasoline from plant matter, with almost no carbon footprint
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George Huber poses with a vial of green gasoline compounds.
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John Regalbuto, program director for Catalysis and Biocatalysis in NSF's Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems, describes green gasoline and provides context for its potential role as an alternative energy.
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James Dumesic of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his former student George Huber, now at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, are breaking new ground in the development of an alternative fuel called "green gasoline."
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George Huber poses in the laboratory with, from left to right, Hakan Olcay and Tushar Vispute, two of his graduate students.
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Components for green gasoline can be sythesized in a laboratory from agricultural waste. New processes are breaking the barriers to producing green gasoline on the large scale needed for industrial produciton.
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In a report sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and the American Chemical Society entitled Breaking the Chemical and Engineering Barriers to Lignocellulosic Biofuels: Next Generation Hydrocarbon Biorefineries, released April 1 (http://www.ecs.umass.edu/biofuels/), Huber and a host of leaders from academia, industry and the government present a plan for making green gasoline a practical solution for the impending fuel crisis.
Credit: NSF, DOE, ACS
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