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Old 06-March-2006, 04:43 PM
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Without more details, I don't find this particularly remarkable. The technology has existed for decades to do this as a two step process - compost the dung to make methane and then do a gas-to-liquid (Fischer-Tropsch) process to make liquid fuel. The devil is in the details - conversion efficiency and costs. The fact that they did it in a one-pot set-up isn't that amazing.
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