Casper Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BiobutanolLooks promising. It's a work between DuPont and BP. It'll run in a regular gasoline engine without modification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yotaman88210 Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Hell yea, time to buy BP stock!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XB12Ss Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Yeah, but what's it cost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted July 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 Yeah, but what's it cost?Read the Wiki. It's made from dead organics just like ethanol, so it costs about the same. Ethanol by the way is about $0.40/gal cheaper than gasoline.To match the combustion characteristics of gasoline, the utilization of butanol fuel as a substitute for gasoline requires fuel-flow increases (though butanol has only slightly less energy than gasoline, so the fuel-flow increase required is only minimal, maybe 10%, compared to 40% for ethanol.)So for about the same price as ethanol, but much more efficient.As an advantage, butanol production from biomass could be more efficient (i.e. unit engine motive power delivered per unit solar energy consumed) than ethanol or methanol routes. Also, the bacterium producing butanol is able to digest cellulose, not just starch and sugars.So, not only could the fermenting starches and sugars be made into fuel, but almost the entire fucking plant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
420gsxr1000 Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 ......see........start growing hemp damnit!!! lmao lmao lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vectorvictor Posted July 20, 2007 Report Share Posted July 20, 2007 It's made from dead organics just like ethanol, so it costs about the same. Ethanol by the way is about $0.40/gal cheaper than gasoline.Unfortunately the ethanol is cheaper by 40 cents because the law that was past a couple of years ago subsidizes ethanol by 60 cents a gallon.. So say it costs 3.40 to make a gal of ethanol. they can sell it at 2.80 a gallon when gasoline is 3.00 a gallon. The government takes sixty cents from you (the tax payer) and gives it to the company that produced the ethanol. That way the company can keep produding it... Ethanol is actually more expensive to make than it is to find and refine crude... big progress isnt it. A dedicated propane or natural gas vehicle is the most efficient and usable fuel. Fill up at home and drive back to the house and hook up the hose at night and it fills from your nat gas line for your house...300 miles is easily reached in most applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyenut Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 well if its not gonna save me money then it doesn't make much of a difference to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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