The U.S. Marine Corps has just awarded a grant of $850,000 to a Wisconsin businessman and an engineering professor to develop a new high efficiency engine that can run on renewable biofuels and biogas, as well as ordinary diesel fuel. The new engine, called K6, is still in the design stage, and the grant will go to building and testing a prototype. If successful, K6 could be up to 30 percent more efficient – and far more quiet – than a conventional diesel engine. The engine also won’t require any modifications when different fuels are used.K6 is the brainchild of entrepreneur Gerald Kashmerick, who has been collaborating with mechanical engineering professor Timothy Shedd of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the project. The two expect their prototype to be up and running by the end of this year.
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