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calvin-biofuel · joyce2011diesel
- Citation
- joyce2011diesel
- Claim ID
- calvin-biofuel
- Assertion
- Melvin Calvin noted in 1980 that Copaifera oleoresin was being used as diesel fuel directly from the tree with minimal processing. He published further on hydrocarbon fuel plants in 1983 and 1986. Plantations of Copaifera trees were established in Manaus, Brazil in the 1980s to test biofuel viability but were later redirected toward timber and pharmaceutical oleoresin production as diesel prices fell.
- Locator
- page: 619-620
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