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The promise of carbon-neutral fuels

If you follow MotoGP road racing at all you will know that Dorna plans to gradually introduce carbon-neutral racing fuel in the next few years.

The starting point of conventional fuels is the variable mixture of perhaps 200 different hydrocarbon structures found in naturally occurring crude oil, or petroleum. In this case, the chemical energy stored in the fuel was put there by the sun, powering the growth of algae in warm, shallow seas of long ago. As those algae completed their life cycle, their remains settled along with

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