John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with E10 for most cars is it doesn't recognise the extra > oxygen atom
Australian electronic fuel injection systems have O2 sensors, this isn't a problem. The reduced energy of E10 compared to the same volume of petrol is a problem, is basic physics, and can't be changed. > and making food production more expensive and so the world goes on > starving. People don't starve for a worldwide lack of food, they starve because the excess of food is in the wrong place, ie, not their belly. This is caused by world politics, corruption, local warlords, complete lack of central government in some places, etc, and the application of more food in places that already have enough won't fix any of that. > Of course if they pumped the waste from coal fire power plants into > green houses that have water tanks full of algea and then turn the > algea into fuel you gat something like 40,000-80,000L of ethernol per > acre, it gets rid of all the emissions in a safe manner and we don't > need to import crude oil. > > But of course that would be too smart so we can't have that. Ethanol producers have pulled a fast one on the public and hooked government subsidies to create a very profitable and completely unsustainable industry. They won't let that go. Your solution still isn't carbon neutral either because you're burning coal, but that's a hell of a lot better than burning coal *and* oil. Our only feasible truly carbon neutral options are solar and nuclear. Solar's expensive and nuclear scares the NIMBYs even though it releases less radioactive waste than burning coal. -- Sam Couter | mailto:[email protected] OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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