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LanzaTech receives $3M contract from FAA for alcohol-to-jet project; one of 8 awards worth total of $7.7M

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million announced by the FAA to help advance alternative, environmentally-friendly, sustainable sources for commercial jet fuel. LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology enables low cost production of sustainable alcohols and chemicals from waste gas resources that are completely outside the food value chain.

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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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The study by Chris Hendrickson and colleagues builds upon other research that indicated that ethanol transport costs in an optimized system, at $0.02/L The analysis emphasizes the importance of regional alternative fuel strategies. Wakeley et al. Ethanol distribution model. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Wakeley et al.

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

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To demonstrate the technique, Kristin Rogers and Thomas Seager applied it to a set of conventional and alternative transportation fuels (carefully noting that their purpose was purpose to illustrate the method, not to provide definitive conclusions about alternative fuels). Central weights box and whisker plots.