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of renewable gasoline is isooctane, which is made from isobutanol. Clients in the automotive market include French oil major Total, which began incorporating Gevo’s isooctane into its Formula 1 racing fuel in 2014. Practically speaking, there is not currently large-scale demand for isobutanol products in the aviation sector as the product
is not yet produced at a meaningful scale. However, Gruber thinks it is merely a matter of time before airlines come to acknowledge the carbonreduction challenge ahead of them, and adopt the renewable fuels. “If we ever get serious in this world about truly reducing our carbon content and the greenhouse gases that result, this is a way that could
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