Ethanol
So I have a few questions regarding
Ethanol. First off is the Ethanol alcohol that is added to your
regular gasoline to make it ethanol gasoline...is that ethanol that
is added 100% alcohol? From what I am reading here it looks to be
more around 95%. With the other 5% being water.
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“Ethanol combustion in
an internal
combustion engine yields
many of the products of incomplete combustion produced by gasoline
and significantly larger amounts of formaldehyde and
related species such as acetaldehyde
“
That
acetaldehyde is the chemical in alcohol that causes cancer!!!! And
acetaldehyde is related to formaldehyde.
Another key
question here is the “bottom of the barrel” of your cars gas tank
over time with regard to ethanol based gasoline versus regular non
ethanol gasoline. Is one more dirty than the other? Is one more
prone to sludge. So I watched an internet video whereby a car sat
for a few years and it took them awhile to figure out what was wrong
with it. Do you know what they did? They drained that gas tank and
it fixed the problem. (Now if you drain your gas tank you only do so
by draining it into a red gas tank and taking that to your local
hazmat disposal facility.) But I wonder if there is an issue today,
whereby if your car is like 15 years old whereby it would be
beneficial to drain that gas tank? I mean rather than have that gas
scientifically tested you might be better off to just drain it?
Now for example,
lets say that we wanted to be white lab coat guy and run an
experiment. Whereby we added certain things to gasoline versus
ethanol gasoline to see how sludge might form and measured the
amounts?
Now, people are
going to look at this as being crazy. I mean that military 5417 kid
thinks everyone is crazy. But has anyone ever asked what the effects
on human health are of significantly of the acetaladehyde known
carcinogen coming out that tailpipe. I know what you want to say
already. The risk of cancer is only if you drink it? You want to
say that anyone who would suggest that if you breathed it you could
get cancer too was baseless and therefore crazy? And what is the
rate of breast cancer in women today? And they are right near the
lungs aren't they. I mean there are a lot of people I just want to
tell flat out to go to h311.
Ever in your
life argue with a chemist and ask yourself, “I wonder if that effer
really has a soul?” I am serious.
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I mean look at
this right here:
“When
this is added into the custom Localized
Pollution Index of
The Clean Fuels Report, the local pollution of ethanol (pollution
that contributes to smog) is rated 1.7, where gasoline is 1.0 and
higher numbers signify greater pollution.[56]”
Do
you know what it means? It means a g/d lie is what it means!
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“Ethanol's
high miscibility with
water makes it unsuitable for shipping through modern pipelines like
liquid hydrocarbons.[59] Mechanics
have seen increased cases of damage to small engines (in particular,
the carburetor)
and attribute the damage to the increased water retention by ethanol
in fuel.[60]
“
And
here we see that small engine damage occurs because ethanol holds
water.
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And
what did the guy who sold me the new 2011 25 hp ETEC outboard in 2011
tell me? He told me that gasoline “Separation” is a real common
problem. Whereby that gasoline left in the tank separates into …..
I
mean p/off that isn't a lie.
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So
the encyclopedia entry goes on to say that V2 rockets in Germany were
powered by Ethanol. But that 25% water was added to it to reduce the
heat the “lit” rocket fuel created. So you can add 25% water to
it. (Now this gets into another question. So you make alcohol by
starting with a lot of water and then distilling the sugar in it, in
laymens terms. So is the ethanol added to gasoline only distilled up
to a certain percent, the highest being 100%. Or is it distilled to
one hundred percent and then water added back to it? Which means
even more water is utilized in it?
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But
lets think about it again, it is a difference in emissions? Whereby
ethanol causes higher level emissions of a cancer causing chemical?
What is not making sense here?
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This
is getting kind of octopus armed article. But I once read that the
body of an alcoholic uses alcohol differently, as a fuel source? I
think this is true, just from my earlier days.
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Now
this is really interesting too.
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So
if you mix water with alcohol equal part to part you loose a total of
4% volume right away! That is how I read it! But how is it
relevant? The ethanol stripped 8% of the oxygen from the water right
away??? Is that the answer? So what happens if you infuse ethanol
with oxygen? (That is going to be another search. I am still
dissecting the wikipedia entry...
I
got stop right here. I am out of gas. I would like to continue with
it. And I tell myself that I will completely finish this. I am only
a 1/3 of the way through it. But as always it will be a loose end.
If
you mix ethanol and water it also produces heat! Exothermic.
Self
note: Stopped at Physical Properties section of Wikipedia entry. And
I am not sure that I really got my answer. As Ethanol in itself
looks to be a term describing a form of alcohol but not to the
concentration of it. In terms of why I would ask, wondering if there
are production differentials.
The
other reason I am researching this is that one study found a specific
type of gasoline engine damage higher with ethanol than regular
gasoline without ethanol.
But
I am done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol
I
support Wikipedia as a charity. $3 a year I give them. I like them.
I don't see why you shouldn't like them too. Perhaps if you live by
what a thick mick divine right military 5417 kid tells you then you
don't like the modern education system of human civilization at all.
I mean, get out.
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2026 Thomas Paul Murphy