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Old 11-28-2005, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by aklim
I'm looking http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/infosheets/apples.htm and http://www.energyadvocate.com/fw3.htm and I see that gasoline has way more BTU than ethanol. Gasoline has 125000 BTU while Ethanol has 84000 BTU. How would it make more power if you compared apples to apples?
You burn twice as much....and its got a very high octaine...thats why its so popular in race cars...

But the burnig twice as much seriously hampers any cost effectiveness.
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