electrofuel

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

electro- +‎ fuel

Noun[edit]

electrofuel (countable and uncountable, plural electrofuels)

  1. Synonym of e-fuel
    • 2012, Michael Grunwald, The New New Deal [] , Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 379:
      Majumdar then held up another vial of electrofuel, this one brewed by a team at MIT. Toone says he's been astonished by the success of the electrofuel projects, and OPX has raised $36 million in follow-up financing.
    • 2014 March 20, David Biello, “Fracking Hammers Clean Energy Research”, in Scientific American[1]:
      The cheap natural gas freed from shale by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) has helped kill off bleeding-edge programs like Electrofuels, a bid to use microbes to turn cheap electricity into liquid fuels, []