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VK6BE > FUEL 05.03.08 03:28l 25 Lines 1321 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Ethanol Issuies
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From: VK6BE@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : FUEL@WW
And yet in spite of all that, ethanol has been used as a fuel for more
years than I have lived, and that is a very long time.Somebody must have
got the predictions wrong! Ethanol is also added to the petrol in many
pumps in Australia with no apparent harm to tanks or engines. I don't know
what the Renewable Fuels Association is. Is it a group of persons who have
done adequate research or is it one of those crazy groups who have only
one agenda? We have them here too.
Bob VK6BE.
> It would take about 300 million gallons of water for processing the product
> and cooling equipment to make 100 million gallons of ethanol each year,
> according to the Renewable Fuels Association.
> Ethanol is a blend of gasoline and ethyl alcohol. Ethyl alcohol is an
> excellent solvent and is hydroscopic, that is it adsorbs water. Acting as a
> solvent, ethanol can damage the sealants used on older fiberglass fuel tanks.
> According to their calculations, ethanol contains about 76,000 BTUs per
> gallon, but producing that ethanol from corn takes about 98,000 BTUs. For
> comparison, a gallon of gasoline contains about 116,000 BTUs per gallon. But
> making that gallon of gas—from drilling the well, to transportation, through
> refining—requires around 22,000 BTUs.
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