50 gallons? 20 degree temperature swing? 75% humidity? Where does that go on? A small boat club in Vermont?
Try 225 gallons, and a boat that has an internal temperature of almost 100 degrees in the day, and in the 60's at night, with humidity in the high 90's.
Run some accurate calculations on that and see how long it takes to get a gallon of water. Keep in mind that it takes less than a quart to overwhelm a water separator on your typical inboard engine to render it completely unable to operate.
Water from somewhere else? If we disconnect the 3/8" fuel hose and hook it to a manifold with the 3/4" vent line, and are able to draw a stable vacuum of 5 inches, as well as a stable pressure of 5 psi, how in the world do you figure the water came from somewhere else? Unless the engine is creating water and shooting it into the fuel tank through its feed line, it is coming in through the vent. Fuel tank vents are universally shielded from rain water, and exit through downward facing lines to vent the tank, so it's not rain, wake, or splash coming in.
Here's what we didn't even see in the last few pages:
*Any argument that ethanol fuel doesn't corrode the living daylights out of carburetors and older fuel systems.
Nothing that was said changes the fact that ethanol is still a Tailpipe Scam. It looks good only if you measure the impact at the tailpipe. Once you consider the impact of the creation of the fuel, it is plain to see that creating ethanol fuel requires almost as much use of diesel fuel. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. May as well cut out the middle man, and just burn diesel fuel, because the legacy of ethanol carries all of the legacy of fossil fuel and in addition the impact of direct ethanol fuel creation.
Scam. And us taxpayers are the ones paying to turn 1 gallon of diesel fuel into 1.1 gallons of ethanol. They may as well call these people government alchemists.
Try 225 gallons, and a boat that has an internal temperature of almost 100 degrees in the day, and in the 60's at night, with humidity in the high 90's.
Run some accurate calculations on that and see how long it takes to get a gallon of water. Keep in mind that it takes less than a quart to overwhelm a water separator on your typical inboard engine to render it completely unable to operate.
Water from somewhere else? If we disconnect the 3/8" fuel hose and hook it to a manifold with the 3/4" vent line, and are able to draw a stable vacuum of 5 inches, as well as a stable pressure of 5 psi, how in the world do you figure the water came from somewhere else? Unless the engine is creating water and shooting it into the fuel tank through its feed line, it is coming in through the vent. Fuel tank vents are universally shielded from rain water, and exit through downward facing lines to vent the tank, so it's not rain, wake, or splash coming in.
Here's what we didn't even see in the last few pages:
*Any argument that ethanol fuel doesn't corrode the living daylights out of carburetors and older fuel systems.
Nothing that was said changes the fact that ethanol is still a Tailpipe Scam. It looks good only if you measure the impact at the tailpipe. Once you consider the impact of the creation of the fuel, it is plain to see that creating ethanol fuel requires almost as much use of diesel fuel. Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul. May as well cut out the middle man, and just burn diesel fuel, because the legacy of ethanol carries all of the legacy of fossil fuel and in addition the impact of direct ethanol fuel creation.
Scam. And us taxpayers are the ones paying to turn 1 gallon of diesel fuel into 1.1 gallons of ethanol. They may as well call these people government alchemists.
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