Hi, Guest
05-27-2009, 10:58 PM
Sure ethanol has it's drawbacks.... there's not much net good in it IMO, but ethanol isn't purely evil either.
Engineers had to engineer fuel systems that wouldn't be eaten by the gasoline that's in them -- so what's so difficult in designing systems that'll run on ethanol?
It can be done...and has been done -- I'm pretty sure there's a solution for long term storage of ethanol and it's propensity of bonding with moisture (a sealed system could likely help with that).
In the end, it may not be the be-all-end-all of fuels, but it does work as a fuel. Hell, when tuned for ethanol (and not strictly gas), you can get amazing performance... the boys at koeniggseg found an extra 200HP by running pure ethanol.
I think most of the problems arise from trying to shoehorn ethanol into a gas-centric market.
Engineers had to engineer fuel systems that wouldn't be eaten by the gasoline that's in them -- so what's so difficult in designing systems that'll run on ethanol?
It can be done...and has been done -- I'm pretty sure there's a solution for long term storage of ethanol and it's propensity of bonding with moisture (a sealed system could likely help with that).
In the end, it may not be the be-all-end-all of fuels, but it does work as a fuel. Hell, when tuned for ethanol (and not strictly gas), you can get amazing performance... the boys at koeniggseg found an extra 200HP by running pure ethanol.
I think most of the problems arise from trying to shoehorn ethanol into a gas-centric market.
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