Alcohol Fuel Demonstration in a Minibike - No Conversion

http://www.USH2.com/alcohol_uses_and_fuels.htm This alcohol fuel demonstration shows a minibike running on an alcohol/gas mixture with a ratio of 1:1. Taken from David Blume's 'Alcohol Can Be A Gas!' book, available at KnowledgePublications.com

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[knowpub]

What I said is ALL TRUE... I know how to do an energy balance and not just 'guess' at what is used to produce the energy I am using. Its thermodynamics 101....and you are just so full of crap from the net, a 'small percentage' is NOT what makes it to your house through the grid, its a LARGE percentage. Thats why Tesla invented AC current, so it could go thousands of miles.

[ke4uyp]

OK here is the bottom line you cannot create nor destroy energy.

You can only convert it from one form to another and in the process of doing this you end up with less energy than you started with. So if you cannot make the alcohol with solar geothermal or wind you are wasting energy.

[knowpub]

@ke4uyp Here is the bottom line, you're DEAD WRONG. The starch that was converted to sugars that was fermented into alcohol WAS MADE WITH SUNSHINE....that is how the starch was grown. So you CAN use electricity very efficiently to distill the alcohol and get a very big net energy gain, because the sunshine made the starch for you. I have done a LOT of distillation via propane, natural gas AND especially using electricity. Distillation by electricity is one of my favorite methods.

[usernameusername12]

Yes, you do need anhydrous alcohol when mixing with gasoline, otherwise the trace amount of water in the alcohol will settle to the bottom of the gas tank, and next you start your vehicle, it won't start and you have to rebuild the block to get the water out.

If you get all the gas out and run on pure alcohol, then you can run the engine on 170-180 proof (85%-95% Alcohol by volume) alcohol.

[knowpub]

You ARE 100% WRONG, INCORRECT. Not only is it IN THE BOOK (Alcohol Can Be a Gas), along with the alcohol / water / gasoline temperature tables, but WE DID IT. WE MIXED IT, NO SEPERATION. It won't seperate until below -10F. Don't believe me, go get some denatured alcohol at home depot, get some gasoline, get some water..and mix them.

[knowpub]

This.. is BS... you do NOT need to have anhydrous alcohol and the water does not settle down in the bottom of the tank. Please go look up the word "miscible"

[mrjamestferguson]

I like how you hold your own as you go into battle with a naysayer...right or wrong, you are strong!

Thank you Steven...keep up the GREAT work!

[ke4uyp]

What you say is partially true but let's not forget that there is a diesel power tractor required to grow the starch. Also the starch had to be transported via a diesel power truck to the distribution warehouse. Also miles of power grid transmission lines have huge amounts of resistance so only a small percentage of the electricity generated at the electric plant makes it to your house.

[switchgrassfuel]

good video. I run my 2006 KIA Spectra on a 50% blend of ethanol 65000 miles on E50 with no problems at all. I hope to convert my car soon.

[knowpub]

You can't use electricity to make electricity either. There are plenty of free / cheap biomass energy sources to use to make alcohol, including the methane gas the left overs can produce, and then those left overs become fertilizer!! It is called the EFFECIENT USE OF MATERIALS !! DO NOT think it must be powered by natural gas or oil.