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- From: smithrs@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SMITH RANDALL SCOTT)
- Subject: Re: Why Not ? (Re: Ethanol fuel
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.151835.9640@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:18:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.193013.42100@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ps02@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PENELOPE E. SMITH) writes:
- >(Lots of discussion on ETHANOL as fuel deleted)
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- >I want my car to run on Honey or other carbohydrates, sort of like the home
- >energy fusion reactor in the car in back to the future. This type of fuel
- >cell has the advantage of not requiring distillation!
- >
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- The most recent _Chemical and Engineering News_ had a short blurb on a recent
- successful test of vegetable oil being used as fuel in the public transport
- system of a city in S.D. (Souix Falls ?). Are you thinking along these lines?
- Using vegetable oils (corn oil predominantly, if I remember rightly) decreases
- sulfide emissions.
-
- Randall Smith
- smithrs@ucsu.colorado.edu
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