Watkins' one-person energy shop, Watkins Pencor , is a principal owner in Masada Oxynol , a Birmingham company that has devised a way to turn municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol.
That is presuming that the Iranian claim to have the capacity to produce in abundance the higher-grade fuel is correct.
This has led to a spike in demand, which has actually shifted toward higher-grade fuel, while at the same time cramping investment.
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Both involve heating organic materials in a vacuum until they break down into carbon and vapors that can be condensed into a low-grade fuel oil.
But weapons-grade fuel is still used in some reactors, said Lyman.
Fourteen years of no-new-nuke-orders later, uranium mining's drop in popularity came with the post-Cold War decision to buy Soviet weapons and turn them into reactor-grade fuel.
U.S. and Israeli officials believe Iran's moves represent a delay, rather than a change of heart, and that other actions are accelerating the pace at which the country could create weapons-grade fuel.
But in 1913 one of its scientists, Friedrich Bergius, found a way to turn coal into a high-grade liquid fuel by heating it in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst.
It is building a facility in South Carolina to transform excess weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear reactors.
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They will soon bioengineer bacteria to melt oil out of tar sands, turn grass into diesel fuel and scavenge natural resources of every kind out of low-grade, thinly dispersed deposits.
The MOX facility will blend surplus weapon-grade plutonium with depleted uranium oxide to make mixed oxide fuel for use in existing nuclear power plants.
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Mercedes recommends 91-octane fuel, but the per-gallon difference of 15 to 20 cents seems a high price to pay for a grade that is only two octane levels higher than regular.
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