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India Wants Isobutanol in Both Diesel and Jet Fuel. It Has Built a Domestic Supply Chain for Neither.
Isobutanol was certified as an aviation-fuel feedstock two years before ethanol was. The world's commercial-scale plants chose ethan...
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Read the piece →The Ministry of Power Published Two Different AT&C Loss Figures for the Same Year. Its Flagship Scheme's Target Sits Between Them.
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Read the piece →The Reactor Nobody Names: How Coal Becomes Syngas, and Why India's Flagship Plant Runs on Someone Else's Technology
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Read the piece →E20 Doesn't Cut Tailpipe CO2 by 30%. Run the Chemistry and the Real Number Is Close to Zero — Unless Your Engine Is Built for It.
India's own vehicle-testing data only measures ethanol's mileage penalty at two blend levels, E10 and E20. Run the actual combus...
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