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Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions. Cella Energy CEO Stephen Voller exhibits his breakthrough technology - right shows the fuel's hydrogen microbeads under a microscope UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline.

Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions

Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification. According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.

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