Amyris was going into partnership with Crystalsev, a Brazilian firm, to
make car fuel out of cane sugar. Not ethanol (though Brazil already has
a thriving market for ethanol-powered cars), but a hydrocarbon that has
the characteristics of diesel fuel. Technically, it is not ordinary
diesel, either: in chemist-speak, it is an isoprenoid rather than a
mixture of alkanes and aromatics. But the driver will not notice the
difference.
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