Why can't an engine run on any fuel? Argonne is designing an omnivorous engine that can run on any blend of gasoline, ethanol or butanol—and calibrate itself to burn that fuel most efficiently.
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Can’t diesel engines run on many forms of fuel? I know the Germans ran them on a coal slurry during WW2. Seems like they’re reinventing the wheel.
mizack75 11 months ago
The engine used in this project is a GM Ecotec 2.2 I4.
douro20 2 years ago
maybe it blows up. or work it all up and []tell them, they might give you some money for it.
antonio41990 2 years ago
why not synthetic methanol from solar or wind. and make it small , saimple and light and for fixed rpm generator operation. how can it not be obvious for a national lab that series hybrid is the thing..
and that synthetic is many times more efficient than bio
DanFrederiksen 2 years ago