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- From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Alcohol fuels
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.180925.90657@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:09:25 +1100
- References: <28244@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.110122.12539@bnr.uk>
- Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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- datasbld@bnr.ca (Datasbuild) writes:
- > Chris Malcolm (cam@castle.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
- > : drinckes@nzl.abk.nec.co.jp writes:
- > :
- > : >Have you noticed it's usually the grottiest, rustiest cars pumping out the
- > : >most smoke and oil that have the Greenpeace stickers on? Yeah, save the
- > : >environment with carbon dioxide. Right on.
- > :
- > : What a moron! It is elementary chemistry that the more smoke and oil
- > : the car pumps out the _less_ carbon dioxide it is producing. In any
- > : case there is nothing wrong with carbon dioxide -- it happens to be
- > : the main exhaust gas produced by animal lungs, and is one of the main
- > : foods of plant life. But if you really want to stop producing carbon
- > : dioxide I suggest you stop breathing.
- >
- > Steady on there old chap, he probably meant carbon monoxide.
- > Oil and smoke (burning oil? Unburnt petrol?) are not exactly conducive
- > to a decent environment or saving the planet you know.
- >
- > Did you see the bit on Tomorrow's World about the busses in reading that
- > are running on crop-derived fuel. It looks to be a good way forward.
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- In parts of South America they've been experimenting with fuel
- made up partly from petrol and partly from (sugarcane?) alcohol, called
- Gasohol. They've been using it for a few years now with promising results.
- The decision to try this was partly to cut petrol based pollution and
- partly to cut dependency on oil improtation. Alcohol based fuels aren't
- as dirty vis a vis exhaust gasses.
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