The XTL Diet: new paths to feasible, domestic low-carb fuels

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane August 23, 2011

Beyond the entire range of conventional and advanced biofuels – or biomass-to-liquid technologies (BTL), lie a range of Coal-to-liquid, and Gas-to-liquid options that have abundant and affordable domestic feedstock supply, and a low-cost, in-place infrastructure for aggregation and distribution.

The high-carb problem
The trouble with CTL, GTL and technologies like them? They produce high amounts of CO2 as a byproduct, and generally run afoul of the principle that alternative fuels should be, at least, no worse on greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fossil fuels.

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