However, if you add enough ethanol (or methanol) to raise the octane sufficiently and control detonation, you end up with a distressingly low power fuel. Thus, you consume more to go the same distance. There are no easy answers. Paul On Dec 30, 2006, at 1:55 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> Apparently Ethanol works almost as well and is somewhat less toxic, > however it's distressingly low tech. > > William Robb wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "mike wilson" Subject: Re: Doomsday is coming upon us? >> >> >> >>> Already been done. The argument worked very well to get rid of lead >>> from fuel. >>> >> >> A situation where politics and reality meet with less than optimal >> results. >> By coincidence, my cousin, a fellow named Robert Sharpe was a >> chemical >> engineer for Royal Dutch Shell at that time. He was put in charge >> of a >> design team finding a substitute for tetraethyl lead. They came up >> with a >> product called methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE). >> Several years ago, we got together for a rare extended family >> dinner, and we >> got to talking about motor fuels. I was involved in souping up >> motorcycles >> at the time, so gasoline additives were of some interest to me. >> Anyway, as far as he was concerned, MTBE was a movement sideways >> as far as >> noxious additives were concerned. >> >> William Robb >> >> >> > > > -- > -- > > The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. > -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
