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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

Green Car Congress

However, real fuels, with their hundreds of components, are too complex to simulate directly. The MFC applied this concept of surrogate fuels to develop both fossil-based and bio-based fuel models. Diesel fuel components, including n-heptane, iso-octane, decalin and alpha-methyl naphthalene (AMN).

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Bush Budget: Plug-ins Hybrids, Not So Much

Plugs and Cars

The Detroit News has the alternative fuel breakdown in the president's budget request, and it isn't pretty. Increases for hydrogen fuel cell research from $289 million in FY 2007 to $309 million in FY 2008. Plug-in hybrids and electric cars built with the best possible, most economic, available-now technology.

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