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Plants at the pump

March 6, 2017 • LIVERMORE, Calif.—Regular, unleaded or algae? That’s a choice drivers could make at the pump one day. But for algal biofuels to compete with petroleum, farming algae has to become less expensive. Toward that goal, Sandia National Laboratories is testing strains of algae for resistance to a host of predators and...

Categories: Biology, Energy / Environment / Water, Transportation

Topics: algal biofuels, auto engine, car engine, EERE

Sandia explores aggressive high-efficiency sparkplug-free gasoline auto engines

June 13, 2016 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories’ Combustion Research Facility are helping to develop sparkplug-free engines that will help meet ambitious automotive fuel economy targets of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. They are working on low-temperature gasoline combustion (LTGC) operating strategies for affordable, high-efficiency engines that will meet...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering, Transportation

Topics: auto engine, car engine, combustion research, CRF, fuel efficiency, University of Minnesota