• Question: Can your bio-fuel power are cars? Is your bio-fuel environmental friendly?

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      Asked by radioactive125 to Rhod on 18 Jun 2013.
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        Rhodri Jenkins answered on 18 Jun 2013:

        I’ve developed a few fuels, one of which we’ve actually tested in a transit van and it worked fine! The fuel in question has been published in academic papers and there’s discussion around whether or not it would be economical to make on the scale we need it to be made.

        Also … my biofuel has the potential to made by microbes, and we can feed these microbes stuff like wood and waste so that it doesn’t compete with food production.

        My fuel, when it’s combusted, will produce CO2 like any other fuel … but the good thing is that a lot of time that CO2 will be “locked” in the stuff we feed to the microbes (i.e. the trees will take in the CO2), and the microbes themselves. It becomes a circular system, rather than a constant increase of CO2 into the atmosphere. So it would be better than fossil fuels.

        Good question by the way! Very probing 🙂

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