Stephen F. Paul is a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory for plasma physics and nuclear fusion science located on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey. Its primary mission is research into and development of fusion as an...

 at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. He created and patented the P-series fuels

P-series fuels

P-Series fuels are a family of renewable, non-petroleum, liquid fuels that can substitute for gasoline. It is a mixture of ethanol, methyltetrahydrofuran , "pentanes-plus" , and butane. The formulas can be adjusted for cold weather and for 'premium' blends. Approximately 35% of the blend is or...

, a new, liquid, renewable, non-petroleum gasoline formulation. He is in the process converting an unused sludge

Sludge

Sludge refers to the residual, semi-solid material left from industrial wastewater, or sewage treatment processes. It can also refer to the settled suspension obtained from conventional drinking water treatment, and numerous other industrial processes...

 plant in Trenton, NJ to process organic waste for fuel.

He currently lives in New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 with his wife. He has three grown children.

He has a BS from Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 and a MS and PhD from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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Sources

• Researcher on a renewable power course (Jan/Feb 2003 article by Stephen Paul)
• Stephen F. Paul (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory website)