fuel made from corn or soy bean or sugar cane
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exactly "gem".... we got to control the oxidation...
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Soy food, lots of water
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sugar cane is recognized as having the least trouble creating ethanol. In Brazil this works wonderfully. They have removed the need to import oil and are actually exporting ethanol. In the US sugar cane doesn't grow as well. sugar cane is best in tropical climates. \n\nIn the US corn is the most common for ethanol. It isn't the best crop but is efficient enough for now. Industry best(meaning in the lab) for producing ethanol is above 1 btu of fuel produces 2 btus of ethanol. \n\nFor non-tropical climates cellulose based ethanol is also making big waves. It's advantages are that every living plant tissue is at least 80% cellulose. Dead tissue like wood is around 30 to 40 percent cellulose. A farmer could sell the normal corn seed, and then bale the corn stalks, which are usually left on the ground, for ethanol. Another advantage is that on irrigated and fertilized lands you can grow better than 10 tons of cellulose per acre per season if grown for harvesting cellulose verus the 2.5 tons per acre of corn seed. critiria for a plant for this process is a plant that grows a lost of mass per acre. \n\nEthanol is meant to replace gasoline fuel not diesel fuel.\nDiesel engines don't have spark plugs, so they can't ignite high octane fuels like gasoline and ethanol. Instead they hammer-strike the better performing low octane deisel fuel. \n\nMost gas engines out there probably can be converted to work with ethanol. There are a number of conversion kits available. It is likely to work better however if they come from the factory. \n\nBio-deisel is wonderful for most diesel engines. I'm afraid I don't know a lot about that topic.
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Ethanol improves the octane index in the gasoline. Depending on the quantity.
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We give away soy to foreign governments in the form of aid despite the fact we could run our vehicles on it.  Smart, eh?\n\nI would switch as long as it was feasable.  Facilities that dispense alternative fuels are nowhere to be found near me and I don't have the technical skills to mix the stuff myself or else I would in a second.  I deleted the emails but I was in contact with a guy in CA last year that convinced the local government on one of the Hawiian Islands to convert their recycling truck fleet to soy power.  He had some good ideas.  He also takes a soy powered VW Wagon on tour around the country to advertise the benefits of biodiesel.  \n\nGood luck if you choose to convert.  I haven't yet but maybe a few semesters at the vocational institute would pay off in the end.
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I hope the following will help:\n\nhttp://www.colpos.mx/agrocien/Bimestral/2005/ene-feb/art-8.pdf
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we have two types - field corn (to feed our animals/chicken and corn by products) and sweet corn (to eat! to freeze/can)--just to name a couple of things.  \n\nand like the other poster said now it will be the ethanol 'thing' which is ALREADY making our gas more expensive.... we will never learn....
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I would guess powdered sugar or corn starch.
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I would like to say yes but at this point I would have to say no. I worked at an ethanol pilot plant and anyone in the industry can tell you to break down starch in the corn you need what they call a jet cooker. This uses high pressure steam at appx 400-600F. There is no way in hell solar panels could heat water to this temperature effeciently and consistently. Plus a lot of ethanol plants run 24 hours a day and that right there pretty much shoots that plan in the ass. A good thought though. Ethanol will become more effecient once the enzyme industry catches up and can CHEAPLY use switchgrass as a fuel source.
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You mean Ethanol. In the upper mid-west of USA it is corn (cool climate). In tropical(hot) climates it is sugar. Both require much heat (energy) to reduce or change the product into ethanol.
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I used to buy a product from Exxon called Varsol.  You can use gasoline also.
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The gas shortage was because they had to completly empty out the underground storage tanks (USTs) to completly remove any water that might be in there before putting the 10% ethanol fuel in there! \nEthanol is a cleaner burning fuel and hopefully will be our new gasoline soon. Ethanol can run in all vehicles and once they figure out how to make ethanol more economically, then I believe it will be a main fuel for the U.S.A.
246565
An alternative energy source
359331
Here's an idea.....drill in Alaska!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nOr here's another one.....ALTERNATIVE FUELS!!!  Ethanol and hydrogen should be our focus.  A failing company like GM could really benefit from getting a head start on those technologies.
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they are high in iron and fiber
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A n energy related project:\n\n1.  Ethanol production, ferment and distill - very easy.  Ethanol is used in gasoline, made from fermented sugar or starch.  Combine sugar, water, and yeast, covered so no air gets in (a plastic bottle with a balloon over the neck).  Let ferment 3 -5 days, balloon will go up then down.  Then in a small pot, put in 3/4 inch of the liquid and a small glass in the middle.  Invert the pot cover and put ice and water in it.  Boil very slowly till about 1/4 of the liquid is gone.  Cool down and you'll have ethanol in the small glass.  Repeat distillation to increase concentration of ethanol.
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They are talking about corn.  Corn is a renewable resource thus a green resource.  Yellow is the color of corn. Corn can be used as a fuel replacement and cuts the reliance on fossil fuels.