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Biogasoline and the search for renewable fuels that fit better

March 26, 2008

Posted by Nathanael Greene in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:: biofuels, biogasoline, ethanol, infrastructure, markettransformation, oil, Virent

Today Shell and a small biofuels start-up called Virent announced their collaboration on "biogasoline." According to the press release (here's the link to the free press kit): Virent's BioFormingTM platform technology uses catalysts to convert plant sugars into hydrocarbon molecules...continued→

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