Cool Planet BioFuels wins California OK to fleet test green gasoline

January 12, 2012 |

In California, Cool Planet BioFuels announced today it has received approval from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to begin fleet-testing its negative carbon gasoline. Cool Planet BioFuel’s technology converts low-grade biomass such as grass and woodchips into high-grade fuel.

This process also produces a byproduct, which can be used to sequester carbon and act as a soil conditioner. This makes the Cool Planet BioFuels product a negative carbon fuel.

The company’s first road tests involve combining negative carbon fuel blendstock with California standard E-10 gasoline to meet California’s 2020 goal of a 10% reduction in carbon intensity versus today’s standard pump gas. Cool Planet’s fuel is chemically identical to traditional gasoline and compatible with any gasoline-fueled automobile on the road today.

The company plans to extensively validate this new technology over the next several months via commercial fleet testing before the fuel is made available to the general public. Cool Planet’s negative carbon fuel can be made from virtually any type of biomass. The first fleet test fuel is made from Mid-Western sourced corn cobs.

Category: Fuels

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