I think that's the crap I put in when I was in the states and it ate my o rings on my fuel filter......$&@/$;-@&? stuff.

slim wrote:

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Hey Johnny I could get you 2 or 3 thousand new ones for what you payed for them 2. Not that its a sore point or anything

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 @%!$#^&*(@^@ ...dammit

Ive read that the USA is backing off its Ethanol expansion, the EPA is reducing teh amount of ethanol it wants, although EThanol production is at record highs.

www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/13/adm-ethanol-ceo-idUSL2N0IY1P920131113

More ethanol is produced than used.
www.globalwarming.org/2013/05/07/epa-doubles-down-on-e15-literally/



We've had E10 since what '92 in Ontario? I had been driving for a short time when E10 started to come around. Not ideal for the older cars that have had lot of gas run through them.
We either need to run E85 exclusivley and increase compression ratios to get fuel mileage/efficency back. Ethanol does contain less energy per volume, but since 75% of energy is wated by the Internal COmbustion Engine(ICE) there are way to recoup this energy per unit deficit.

I guarentee that no one would worry about ethanol fuels if it cam,e out of teh pump at E100,lol. 100% aclcohol is impossible by simle distillation, max is about 96% because its an azeotrope or a chemical which cannot be further seprated by distillation.
I once had some 95% or 190 proof Ethanol, it kinda burned on the way down. It was Everclear grain alcohol, illegal in a few states, but you can buy cases of it in Manitoba or out west further.

We have to do something to reduce our carbon problems, not sure in Ethanol is the issue. As teh polar ice caps melt, they melt ast a faster rate in a positive feedback loop. Less ice to refect the heat back into space, means that the water will absorb mmore and more heat, thus cauysing the ice to melt faster. Plus air pollution settles on teh ice and its brown/black colour absorbs heat energy instead of teh white ice relecting it. The ice is "calving" at a huge rate.
In Ontario we have the Great Lakes to help moderate the weather, but places like Houston will become alost unliveable. There are plans to build a dome over Houston, doubt that will happen, but just imagine that project?

North America is at least trying, CHina and other such places are burning coal/tires, oil ANYTHING to make power. If fusion power would reach the "break-even" point (the point at which teh amount of energy put into the fusion reactor is equal to its energy output) it would be a great breakthrough. Fusion is combining 2 elements and creating a differnt element. Usually 2 atoms of Hydrogen in the form of Tritium and Deuterium are heated to millions of degrees and if compressed enough an atom of Helium will squirt out with a massive release of energy. Think of the 50's when the thermonuclear/fusion/hydrogen bomb came out. They use the splitting of atoms(fission) in a primary stage, to "light off" a second or 3rd or 4th thermonuclear stage.


I recently saw show and the largest fusion reactor (called Tokomaks) being built in Europe and will be online for 2018.
The highest temperatires attained in the USA has been 800 million degrees.

The great thing about fusion is that there is no environmental concerns as water is used for the hydrogen source, and helium is the byproduct. This would also help our worlds helium shortage.
Unfortunatley for the last 50 years, using fusion for useable power production has always been stated as being viable "20 years from now".
If we stay on this course, our childrens, children will live ina very different world.

Sorry for the book, but I find energy production, climate change and automotives entirely fascinating.

shhhhhhh pick ( D ) all of the above......25% chance of getting it right!