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Honda Civic GX owners rejoice! Corncob technology may extend your driving range

We mentioned this the other day, but here are a few more details on the corncob-natural gas storage breakthrough. The method uses corncob waste to store natural gas much more efficiently than regular tanks, which would help extend the driving driving of CNG-fuel vehicles such as the Honda Civic GX. A joint effort by the University of Missouri-Columbia and Midwest Research Institute developed the technology that starts with corncob waste. Researchers created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores that can store national gas at 180 times its ... Read more →

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