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| MATTER BIOFUEL |
| Frack'er Up |
| Natural gas is shaking up the search for green gasoline |
| BY DAVID BIELLO |
| AM SPEEDING DOWN New Jersey's highways, has been called the "olive economy" —companies that |
| are neither bright green nor darkest black, but com- |
| alcoholic biofuel brewed from stewed corn ker- bine environmentally-friendlier technologies with old- |
| nels. As I drive through the outskirts of the town- |
| er and dirtier ones in order to compete. In fact, Primus |
| ship of Hillsborough, in the center of the state, I see |
| may become a leader in advancing this kind of technol- |
| that spring has brought with it a bounty of similar "bio- |
| ogy. "We can be as dark as you want or as green as you |
| mass," as the fuel industry likes to call plants. Trees |
| want," says geologist, serial entrepreneur, and Primus |
| line the road and fresh-cut grass covers the sidewalks |
| salesman George Boyajian. |
| as I pull into the business park that is home to Pri- |
| In July, President Barack Obama gave a major |
| mus Green Energy-a company that has been touting |
| speech on climate change that described natural gas |
| a technology to transform such biomass into a green |
| as a "transition fuel" towards the "even cleaner energy |
| and renewable form of gasoline. |
| economy of the future." But Primus's trajectory raises |
| But there's a hitch. The boom in hydraulic fracturing, |
| the question of whether natural gas is a boost on the |
| or "fracking," a technique in which horizontal drilling |
| road to a genuinely green fuel, or if it is prolonging our |
| and high-pressure jets of water are deployed to release |
| addiction to dirty modes of transport, and taking us on |
| gas trapped in sedimentary shale rock, has made natu- |
| a detour from a low-carbon path. |
| ral gas cheap and plentiful. That's not bad for Primus, |
| At the Primus headquarters, I first meet Primus's |
| whose technology can make gasoline from natural gas, |
| chief chemist Howard Fang in front of a prototype of |
| biomass, or even low-grade coal, such as lignite or peat. |
| a Primus conversion machine. Fang, who joined the |
| This versatility makes Primus a potential part of what |
| company for what he calls his "semi-retirement," is |
| ILLUSTRATION BY PETER & MARIA HOEY |
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