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New UC Davis market-based sustainability forecasting approach concludes supplanting gasoline and diesel with renewable fuels could take 131 years

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At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. The forecast was published online 8 Nov.

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Study Concludes That Large-Scale Transport of Ethanol Could Negate Its Economic and Environmental Benefits Compared to Gasoline

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Ethanol should be pursued in areas near feedstock production, while different transportation fuel alternatives, such as plug-in hybrids, should be explored in other areas remote from feedstock sources. Wakeley et al. Ethanol distribution model. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Wakeley et al. Wakeley, Chris T. Hendrickson, W.

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Researchers Propose New Method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment; Transportation Fuels as a Case Study

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Rogers and Seager (2009). Rogers and Seager (2009). TRACI-characterized inventory data for the different fuels and impact categories. Trade-offs are apparent in that no alternative outperforms all other alternatives in all impact categories. Rogers and Seager (2009). Rogers and Seager (2009).

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Qatar Airways, QSTP and Qatar Petroleum to Develop Renewable Biojet Fuel with Support of Airbus; Formation of Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform

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Following along the Airbus Alternative Fuels Roadmap, by launching this new initiative with Qatar Airways, we have taken yet another important step to reach carbon neutral growth in the aviation sector by 2020. This industry-wide cooperation will achieve real progress in finding sustainable fuel alternatives.

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Researchers Discover Potential Weaknesses in Structure of Lignocellulose; Insight Could Lead to Cost-Effective Strategies for Biomass Conversion

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The ability to economically and easily break cellulose into sugars is desirable because the sugars can be used to create fuel alternatives. Gnanakaran (2009) The Stability of Cellulose: A Statistical Perspective from a Coarse-Grained Model of Hydrogen-Bond Networks. Tongye Shen and S. 2008.12.3953.

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AT&T to Deploy More Than 15,000 Alternative-Fuel Vehicles in Fleet Over Next 10 Years

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While there are no easy solutions to the challenges facing our nation, this investment is a first step on our part to help boost other industries while at the same time encouraging wider use and production of efficient vehicles and domestic fuel alternatives. Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T.