Re: BRAZIL'S ALCOHOL-POWERED CAR

Pope Secola VI wrote: 
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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.

God I just love it. Now the gas station will have to have pumps for three grades of gasoline, Diesel, alcohol, bio diesel, vegetable oil, Hydrogen, methane, propane, then some dumb *** will pull up to fill his 8 zillion horsepower all fuel mobile with Hydrogen, and lite up a dooby to get a little high and blow the whole dammed thing to hell.


Yup , darwin in action ...

Happens all the time

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