Episode 8 – New Fuels (Part 1 of 2)

Episode 8 – New Fuels (Part 1 of 2)

vor 17 Jahren
Amid growing concern about high gasoline prices, global warming, and limited resources of petroleum, scientists and engineers around the world are on a quest for new fuels — alternatives to conventional petroleum, natural gas, and coal. On their radar scr
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vor 17 Jahren
Amid growing concern about high gasoline prices, global warming,
and limited resources of petroleum, scientists and engineers around
the world are on a quest for new fuels — alternatives to
conventional petroleum, natural gas, and coal. On their radar
screens are new sources of familiar old ethanol that do not strain
the food supply and futuristic fuels like “green gasoline” and
“designer” hydrocarbons.

Intro theme and music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Darkroom
and M12 (ccmixter.org); Creative Commons licensed audio from
freesound.iua.upf.edu includes sounds by LG, Halleck, Han1, Heigh
hoo, Gorgee de biere, dkelly99, kjackson and reinsamba.
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