Re: E85 converted SRT-6
My social View -
Tuning food into automotive fuel -- "WTF"??
My economic View -
Gasoline and water just don't mix - Ethanol and water mix very well.
The nation’s gasoline supply is delivered via thousands of miles of pipelines and huge tank farm feed stocks that are prone to water contamination - we can separate water and gasoline at the jobber efficiently to produce a superior product for the end user.
Ethanol mixed with water irreversibly dilutes the final product - thus ethanol must be delivered via sealed trucks to the consumer.
I can just imagine what will happen to ethanol fuel prices when a big storm or big freeze destroys the crops in America - oh yea - and what prices will do at the grocery store.
Plus it takes huge amounts of electricity to brew Ethanol – yet refineries amazingly use very little electricity… There is always a trade off – there always must be…
“Refineries have a combined heat and power plant that generally supplies all their own power requirements. The combination of generating power and steam gives these plants a considerably higher yield than is possible using conventional power generation systems. In addition, heat loss at every stage of the production process is minimized”