No biofuel offers a real solution if it is simply a replacement for fossil
fuels used according to the current patterns. That's what's wrong with the
current corporate approach to biofuels. Biofuels do enable fuels to be
manufactured on a small scale, which is a requirement of the real solution,
that is, a reduction in the need to use vehicles to a level at which post-peak
petroleum is not economically viable.
The point about racing with E85 is simply that it's a lovely racing fuel. If
you forget about perfidious-electronics-based flex-fuelery and start chasing
the positive spirals that arise when you optimize an engine for E100
exclusively you end up with a 600bhp 1100 and wondering how to get enough
bearing width and crank web thickness into so small a crankcase. If you don't
go to such extremes it's the perfect hobby-car fuel - especially if the town's
entire vehicle fleet consists of a hundred farm trucks, a dozen sports cars,
and a first-strike pump.
-Dawie
----- Original Message ----
From: Rexis Tree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: biofuel@sustainablelists.org
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June, 2007 10:32:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Jatropha vs Castor
I always think that the idea of producing highly valuable biofuel and run them
in fuel guzzler with a ruthless driver is absurd. Why not improve the vehicle
and the people first. See, E85 sport car won a race, but is there a point? That
your 6.0 V12 can be green?
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