My perception on real gas
As an engineer, I hate "feelings" not supported by hard data. 1/4 tank left, went with premium. With tank down to 1/4 again, came across a station offering 93 ethanol free and filled it up again. ...
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Bedlam wrote:
The last study I have seen was that creating Ethanol took more energy than the result. Although it may be cleaner burning, this makes little sense to me. I see it more as farm subsidy than alternate energy source.
The concept as proposed, ethanol would save oil. Reality is, it uses as much, if not more than it saves.
Even worse is the amount of water that is poured on the crops to increase the yield. In south central MI, they've had to dig the wells deeper and the quality of water that is coming out of the wells has gotten much worse.
