Ethanol as a motor fuel

[TexasBama]

Political pandering? Absolutely.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050718...BJViO7QOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM-

 

[NYBamaFan]

Solar and wind power are also a waste of time and money. We should spend these billions of dollars on Hydrogen powerplant research...

 

[TiderinMiss]

One of my great-aunts had a small store in a rural area (the old "mom and pop" grocery). This was back around 1972.

I remember she had two gas pumps: One was "REGULAR" and the other said "ETHYL".

Didn't they used to sell Ethynol fuel back then? Was it the same thing?

 

[TexasBama]

The name Ethyl was derived from the name of the compound Tetra Ethyl Lead, used as an anti knock additive back in the day.

 

[CrimsonKing]

Solar and wind power are also a waste of time and money. We should spend these billions of dollars on Hydrogen powerplant research...

My uncle has a solar panel on his roof, and says it saves him a lot on the utilities. On hot summer months, he gets to watch the meter run BACKWARDS. It cost him about five grand to get the thing set up, but it's more than paid for itself by now.

 

[NYBamaFan]

I wrote a research paper on solar energy a few years ago. I am not saying that it is never cost effective, just rarely.

My point above was relative to our national needs. Where solar and wind farms have been built, they have generally been labeled a failure - and they have only been built in ideal locations. Trust me, if your local power company could create energy that easily, they would be doing it right now.

We need renewable energy sources that do not rely on weather conditions. Current solar and wind technology is simply too inefficient...

 

[REALtide]

they did , in the early to mid 80's , sell gasohol which was a combination of regular gasoline and alcohol.... some of us may remember Phillips 66 stations with a corn cob sticker on the pumps back then. Anywho.... it was great stuff for carborated motors, but was downright lethal to fuel injectors, so it went away.

Now, Bio-diesel is the way to go.... you can make a very efficient diesel fuel from corn oil that requires no engine modification whatsoever with only one slight negative reation to it..... exhaust fumes from it smells like fresh popped popcorn..... Pavlov's Dog - folks would struggle to pass movie theaters with that scent in the air. Same problem from peanut oil-derived diesel.....fresh roasted peanuts. The good news is that those scents can be modified with soybean oil, which isn't great smelling, to temper the fragrance. Now tell me how cool it would be to save so many farms by just the trucking industry swapping over to bio-diesel.... being able to tell the Arab nations and OPEC that we want a better price on oil because demand would decrease by nearly half......

See....you can be a conservative and a conservationalist too.