Renewable Fossil Fuels

Researchers form the US Department of Energy’s laboratory in Oak Ridge have developed a new mechanism that converts ethanol into hydrocarbon that can be an alternative to fossil fuels.

Researchers have been experimenting for years to create a more efficient way to create hydrocarbons. Older processes required way too many steps. These excessive steps caused the processes to be to expensive for them to reproduce for mass production. These new processes can be used at high temperatures rather than low temperatures. The new systems are more efficient and more robust.

This new technology is important because we are slowly becoming less dependent on fossil fuels. This dependency is becoming an issue because they are not efficient and decreasing in the amount available. This new technology should help with this decline.

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