An innovative biofuel that may one day be cheaper to produce than gasoline is being developed at the University of Waterloo by two chemical engineering researchers.

"If this is successful, we'll have a new technology that's Canadian. We'll also have students trained to do this, who will be among the highly-qualified people needed to develop this country's biofuels and biomanufacturing industry," says Murray Moo-Young, a distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

Biofuels are a renewable energy source produced by plants like sugar cane and corn. While these fuels are better for the environment than fossil fuels, they are often expensive to...

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