Sort of, you don’t get sugar directly from corn.Where do u get the sugar from? Sugar beets, cane, switch grass, and....corn.
Sort of, you don’t get sugar directly from corn.Where do u get the sugar from? Sugar beets, cane, switch grass, and....corn.
For certain applications, it is phenomenal (e.g. tuned street cars requiring a high octane fuel). But that is a very limited (and arguably unintentional) use case.Why the love for it?
Nor are there really any gross disadvantages other than a lot of Internet hype.But for current main street gasoline engines, there are minimal (or no) advantages....aside from the political/regulatory component.
It’s a 36 gallon tank. Last week I got E85 at $1.72/gal and 87 octane was $3.11. Here’s some reference on the tunes:That seems fantastic.. but here you would have to have a 50gallon fuel tank to get near 25$ savings.
Yes same here in Southeastern Wisconsin.Minnesota (where I live) has required ethanol blends since 1997. The first state to do so, I believe.
So here we are, ~25 years later and I’m STILL WAITING on all these problems people say it cause. Every car, boat, lawn mower, motorcycle. etc. I’ve owned still works, always has. No problems, ever.
From an engineering perspective only:Got to love the folks who simply can't understand separating engineering perspectives of a fuel and the government side of it. I just wanted to know why the hate of ethanol from AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE.
So here we are, ~25 years later and I’m STILL WAITING on all these problems people say it cause. Every car, boat, lawn mower, motorcycle. etc. I’ve owned still works, always has. No problems, ever.
Ethanol is a great fuel, if NOT mixed with gasoline. The issue is when mixed with gasoline, it doesn't perform optimally for either fuel. If i remember correctly, the optimal ethanol/gasoline fuel mixture is E30 but most cars aren't designed to operate at that. There's also some new research that the emissions might not be as clean as originally thought. From an engineering perspective, you can't get the optimum ethanol/gasoline mixture readily, for peak performance.
wow 36gallon..It’s a 36 gallon tank. Last week I got E85 at $1.72/gal and 87 octane was $3.11. Here’s some reference on the tunes:
Ya. They all require heat/energy to extract and convert.Sort of, you don’t get sugar directly from corn.
Ethanol blend and tune only:You would be lucky to see 66% increase with e85 over premium fuel. let alone e30.
99% has to do with stuff that the OP has requested be left out of the thread.Love the stuff for it's knock resistance in my Sportwagen. I too don't understand the drama.
I always understood the E10 being to provide knock resistance in leu of former chemicals that did the same that were enviormentally a mess (MTBE).99% has to do with stuff that the OP has requested be left out of the thread.
in general govt. subsidy and mandates, as well as the source that is not energy efficient to produce..
or you could throw in the fact that there are more climate emissions between producing it and burning it than just burning petroleum fuels.
most of that could be mitigated but that is going to far off topic so I will stop here.
Absolutely,I always understood the E10 being to provide knock resistance in leu of former chemicals that did the same that were enviormentally a mess (MTBE).
And without the sweet sweet knock resitance you get from corn.Absolutely,
I was referencing greater than 10% ethanol with my comments.. also current ethanol free fuels manage without MTBE etc but perhaps with costly-er additives