Your average-run-of-the-mill envirotard is simply too stupid and arrogant to understand this
Ontario to double amount of ethanol in gasoline
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Your average-run-of-the-mill envirotard is simply too stupid and arrogant to understand this
I am aware of that. It is the principle more than anything. People whine about turning farmland into strip malls and subdivisions yet are perfectly willing to divert good land to growing a third rate fuel.
There is a perfectly good methanol plant sitting idle in Kitamat that runs on biomass. Works at least as well as ethanol for fuels.
How would biomass be inserted into Gasoline? I'm not being sarcastic I truly want to know
There is no starvation in the world because of food production, the only starvation occurs in corrupt political environments.
NASCAR gets its fuel directly from the tanker, not from an underground tank that has been contaminated with water.
Oh goody, let's use that so we can watch the levels of ozone, atmospheric formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in the ambient air of our cities go way up.
Right, that's what I said.
The so-called flex cars and trucks can run on anything up to 100% ethanol.
Engines can be adapted to produce the same mileage with anything from pure gas to pure ethanol - theoretically. Because ethanol is higher octane it will allow the engine to run at higher compression which makes the engines more efficient so that the lower energy value of the fuel is compensated for.
Engines can be adapted to produce the same mileage with anything from pure gas to pure ethanol - theoretically. Because ethanol is higher octane it will allow the engine to run at higher compression which makes the engines more efficient so that the lower energy value of the fuel is compensated for.
Still doesn't take care of the ozone, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde problems.
Let me give you a couple of examples. A study by atmospheric scientists at Stanford University found that E85 fuel would increase the risk of air pollution deaths relative to gasoline by 9% in Los Angeles. Ozone levels are significantly increased, thereby increasing photo-chemical smog and aggravating medical problems such as asthma and other respiratory issues.
Brazil burns significant amounts of E85. Gas chromatograph studies were performed of ambient air in São Paulo, Brazil, and compared to Osaka, Japan, which does not burn ethanol fuel. Atmospheric formaldehyde was 160% higher in Brazil, and acetaldehyde was 260% higher.
The fermentation of the grain produces CO2, burning the ethanol creates CO2 and the high protein mash that remains which is fed to cattle creates methane.
This does nothing for emissions.
This does nothing for emissions.
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Whatever. The percentage of ethanol in gasoline reduces the caloric value but raises the compression at which an engine will run.
The higher compression increases engine efficiency such that the lower caloric value of the fuel is compensated for.
The higher compression increases engine efficiency such that the lower caloric value of the fuel is compensated for.
