[CedarDave]

What do you know about the byproducts of combustion in the use of refined products from these biodiesel compounds?

Nothing, unfortunately; I'm not a chemical engineer. Obviously nitrates could be as much a problem in diesel exhaust as sulfur is in current diesel products. It needs to be looked at as do the other byproducts in fuel from this new process. However the efficiency of the process, if it holds up, will allow for additional refining of finished products to remove harmful contaminants without making the end products too expensive to use.

Having said all that, it just seems too good to be true. Nonetheless, I'd consider putting a few dollars (just a few mind you!) into the company if it was public.

[Carry_Okie]

The way I see it, the results of that question might determine if this class of products becomes a general replacement for petrochemicals or a niche market substitute. Too often researchers (and investors) get too excited about the gozinta without addressing the gozouta. Once the money for production is committed, the momentum cannot be ignored, but then, neither can the consequences.

Witness MTBE. Both the major oil companies and the EPA knew that MTBE contaminated groundwater as early as 1981 and they went ahead anyway. You can thank the Natural Resources Defense Council for that.