The News
High energy liquid fuel created from sugar
MADISON, Va., June 21 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have transformed sugar into a liquid transportation fuel they say has a 40 percent greater energy density than ethanol.
Reporting in the journal Nature, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor James Dumesic and colleagues describe a two-stage process for turning biomass-derived sugar into 2,5-dimethylfuran, or DMF.
"Currently, ethanol is the only renewable liquid fuel produced on a large scale," said Dumesic. "But ethanol ... has relatively low energy density, evaporates readily, and can become contaminated by absorption of water from the atmosphere. It also requires an energy-intensive distillation process to separate the fuel from water."

The Research
Read the research behind this story in the journal Nature.