The_Truth
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Re:Ethanol Facts, Car Mods - 2008/07/01 07:03
at this point... not worried about the environment... worried bout my pocket.
as for power. yes, ethanol does have less power per unit density than gasoline... but it is VERY good to run in high compression motors (race engines, etc). and seeing that our engine is at least 11.5-12.5: 1 ... then chances are it would run well(and efficiently). Not to mention, the ignition system in our car is multiple spark discharge, which means, depending on the advance of the distributor, the engine will not spark 1 time to each plug, but multiple times to that same plug in a fraction of a second.
as for mileage... I have looked into the "hydrogen-oxygen generators"... but I'm not sure how well it would work. On a fuel injected vehicle... it would really confuse it. Not to mention, when performing electrolysis... on stainless steel... it does not appear to be doing anything to the metal... but it is actually stripping the chromium from the steel. I would however like to build a PWM circuit up to experiment with that since a standard dc current does not seem to produce too quickly. I was reading tho, that the frequency and duty cycle must be adjustable(not sure how they are doing that... for frequency a 555 timer requires a capacitor to set it).
*smiles* as for a credit from the gov't... well, we don't have income tax, we have one of the lowest taxes on fuel, our "wheel tax" is $60, and all we really have is sales tax that hasn't gone up in at around 12 years.
but yeah... the goal... is to not have to pay $9.00 a gallon for a 110 octane fuel... when ethanol is approximately 103, and cheaper than gas!
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