Research Being Done On Our Energy Needs
What happens if you overheat vegetable oil or sugar in your kitchen? Vegetable oil smokes and turns brown and sugar turns black. Both of these are caused by decomposition because oil and sugar will not evaporate, so they decompose to form carbon.
If you heat vegetable oil or sugar approximately one million times faster than you can do in your kitchen, they form no carbon at all, but rather form hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This gas mixture is called synthesis gas because it can be used to synthesize interesting fuels and chemicals such as synthetic gasoline. Since the mixture can be formed from biomass, this process can produce completely renewable fuels and chemicals.
This is the basis of a paper recently published in Science magazine.
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