NREL catalyst brings drop-in fuels closer

Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 06:02 in Physics & Chemistry

We live in a petroleum-based society, and the oil we use comes from plants that were buried eons ago and changed under pressure and high temperatures. As countries across the globe face dwindling oil supplies and the environmental impacts of tapping hard-to-process shale oil, the question arises: is there a greener way to replicate Mother Nature?

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