Re: BRAZIL'S ALCOHOL-POWERED CAR


Stuart Grey <stuart.grey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> §§§ Raven §§§ wrote:
> > North wrote:
> >
> >> From Mother Earth News: Issue #66 - November/December 1980
> >
> > ANd now in 2006 we know that it would take more oil to
> > grow enough corn to service all our automobile fuel needs
> > than we are currently using in gasolene......
>
> Yes... and no. Of course, you don't need to use oil or alcohol to fire
> the still. You can use coal, sugar cane husks or anything else that
> burns. The idea is to make a liquid fuel that can be used in cars. You
> can use low entropy fuels to do that.
>
> The Brazilians use the sugar cane husks as fuel for their stills.
>
> You get about 150 gallons (of gasoline equivelent) per acre using the
> Brazilian method. To replace the US gasoline supply would require about
> 1/3 of the US land area be dedicated to alcohol farms. The cost would be
> incredible; consider that at current prices of gasoline is around
> $2.30/gal, then you're talking about a profit much lower than $345/acre.
> I can grow a lot of things for better money than that - Sugar, for
> example! And this land has to have a lot of water available, and be of a
> southern latitude. Alaska and the Western US is not an option.
>

Look, the idea is 'not' to 'replace' gasoline with alcohol, but to give me
the 'option' or ' choice' to burn it.
My 1980 datsun truck is dual fuel. I can run run either gasoline or alcohol.
As it stands now, there's no 'alcohol' pump at the fueling station. I'd like
that choice. The idea is to reduce demand on gasoline, thus 'conserving'
supplys.
The fueling station of the future will offer : Gasoline, Alcohol, Gas-o-hal,
diesel, pure bio-diesel, and Hydrogen.
Give the consumer the choice. Give the consumer more fuel options. This will
reduce over all demand on crude for gasoline, and thats the whole idea.

n.



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