Is Ethanol fuel the way to go in America?
In the future will it be possible to let all automobiles use this fuel or will it only be available to newer vehicles?
In the future will it be possible to let all automobiles use this fuel or will it only be available to newer vehicles?
Most cars can take a mix. Pure ethanol is not that wonderful, although it is MUCh better than hydrogen.
I currently have a car that runs on methane. I keep some fat liberal douchebag in the trunk, feed him plenty of bean burritos and have a syphon hose running up his butt. He doesn’t mind so much, especially since he’s tied his laptop into my sattellite radio and has found a way to post on the Internet all day long.
Yes, it’s working for Brazil (they use sugar cane). There is plenty of corn (what the USA would use to create it). It does not cause as much pollution as oil refiners.
It doesn’t seem that there will be any one solution, but it looks like ethanol will fit into the overall solution in one way or another. The only problem is that it takes quite a bit of land to grow it, because corn isn’t that great of a source for it.
Not surprising, somebody mentioned Brazil, somebody also doesn’t understand the size difference between US economy and the Brazilian one.
Ethanol is a very high octane fuel, replacing lead as an octane enhancer in gasoline.
Fuels that burn too quickly make the engine “knock”. The higher the octane rating, the slower the fuel burns, and the less likely the engine will knock.
When ethanol is blended with gasoline, the octane rating of the petrol goes up by three full points, without using harmful additives.
Adding ethanol to gasoline “oxygenates” the fuel, adding oxygen to the fuel mixture so that it burns more completely and reduces polluting emissions such as carbon monoxide.
Ethanol and ETBE oxygenator, made from ethanol, are much safer than the toxic and polluting MTBE fossil-fuel-derived oxygenator used by oil companies.
* I THINK THERE ARE BETTER CHANCES OF SEEING THIS BEING USED IN FUTURE CARS DONT YOU THINK?*
No, the way to go is vegetable oil. Any diesel engine will run on vegetable oil if it is heated to the corredt viscosity or if it is mixed with a little white spirit or paint thinners. Just about any volvo engine will run without any messing about. old vegetable oil from fast food joints works just as well as fresh oil. In fact i run a diesel generator on olive oil to get electricity, though i do live on an olive farm. Incidently the guy who invented the diesel engine (his surname is diesel) was found drowned shortly afterwards.
the bonus is by growing oil producing plants will help the problems we are having with the ozone layer and global warming and when the eco-fuel is burnt it creates far less carbon than fossil fuels and produces no lead. The petro-chemical companies have known this for years they just do not want us to know.
The downside is your vehicle may smell like a mobile chip shop.
Most newer vehicles can use it.
It’s too bad we have an ethanol fixation. We should be producing Butanol. It can be used in any vehicle now and has none of the problems that ethanol has.