Open AccessGetting Serious About Biofuels
Author(s) -
S. E. Koonin
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556
H-Index - 1186
eISSN - 1095-9203
pISSN - 0036-8075
DOI - 10.1126/science.1124886
Subject(s) - diesel fuel , biofuel , petroleum , vegetable oil refining , natural resource economics , environmental science , biodiesel , economics , engineering , waste management , chemistry , biochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis
![Figure][1] CREDIT: CALTECHAlthough Rudolf Diesel imagined that his eponymous engine would be fueled by vegetable oils, the widespread availability of inexpensive petroleum during the 20th century determined otherwise. The world is now seriously revisiting Diesel's vision, driven by
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