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Shell said in a statement that unlike ethanol, currently the
main biofuel alternative to gasoline, the fuel it and Virent aim
to develop will be able to run in existing vehicles without the
need to modify their engines.
Today's gasoline engines can
usually only run on a small amounts of ethanol blended with
gasoline -- typically five per cent.
Shell gave no targets for achieving commercial production of
the new fuel.
Last May, Shell and Madison, Wis.-based Virent announced a
partnership to develop processes to manufacture hydrogen from
biomass, using the same technology the partners hope will now
produce "biogasoline." |
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