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.
Liquids are then filtered and gases are extracted through condensers ready for conversion to higher grade fuel.
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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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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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.
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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