[Amc-list] E-85 Conversion (forgedaboutit)

["Bruce Hevner" <scramblr@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"  So why are we using Ethanol instead of Butanol?? PRICE, so far
Butanol " has been MUCH more expensive to produce than Ethanol but that
could be " changing. BP & Dupont have a pilot project going in Europe to
try the " feasibility of changing an Ethanol plant to Butanol.
"
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=
biofuels&id=18443&a=

i got an error when i tried to pull this pg up.

Hmmm, don't know why it worked (and worked from this post). I think BP &
Dupont are on to something,,,,and the Shell engineer's refusal to
comment on it,,,, HHHmmm,,,

" Energy independence (or at least a step in the right direction) is
easy " for this country. All we have to do is change the wrong headed
thinking " in Washington that makes growing low THC Hemp illegal and use
it to make " Butanol.
" http://www.butanol.com/

you and they have convinced me of butanol's potential, but imho they
still have a long way to go.  iirc their production process, while it
can work directly on cellulose unlike the common yeast-based ethanol
fermentation, has miserable production efficiency.  butanol saturates
water at 7%; more separates on its own.  if they could get their
bacteria to live at this level they'd really have something, but it
chokes at 2%.

That's part of what the research is about, getting the efficiency up.
Butanol has much higher energy content than Ethanol (better HP and
mileage) and can be transported by the same infrastructure as gasoline.
I just wish I could make it in my backyard!!

and even if we switched all gasoline vehicles to butanol, we still
consume far too much.  sufficient acreage to fill current demands would
be difficult to come by, never mind the economic spillover as production
competes for space with food crops.

Not necessarily true if you add low THC Hemp in the mix. There are
THOUSANDS of acres of land not really suitable for growing other crops
that COULD be used to grow Hemp. We IMPORT Hemp from Canada but are not
allowed to GROW it here!! What's wrong with THAT picture?? And shouldn't
we do EVERYTHING we can to reduce oil imports???
 http://www.votehemp.com

But HEY,,, that's just ME!!
Bruce (thinking outside the box) Hevner

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