The developers of a new gasoline additive say it can decrease pollution while at the same time increase mileage and engine power. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports:
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The developers of a new gasoline additive say it can decrease pollution
while at the same time increase mileage and engine power. The Great
Lakes Radio Consortium’s Lester Graham reports.
The company that developed it says the additive could be a
more efficient substitute for MTBE. MTBE is a gasoline additive
that helps to reduce ozone pollution. It’s being phased out by the
federal government because of water pollution problems. Paul Waters is
a scientific advisor to general technology applications. The company
that developed the new compound. Waters says tests at the University of Michigan and the
University of Illinois show the additive increases horsepower by
ten-percent and mileage by 20 percent. The company says it also reduces
emissions.
“In the case of carbon monoxide it’s over 90-percent. In those
tests we have done for nitrogen oxides, it’s over 90. In the
hydro-carbons it’s in the neighborhood of 65 to 70. So, we just claim
over 70-percent.”
The company is road testing the compound now and calls for
more research to be done to verify its claims.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, this is Lester Graham.