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Environment & Energy

Mopar151

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5. Horsepucky!

Reply to doc03 (Reply #4)

Tue May 7, 2013, 04:34 AM

May 2013

Ethanol replaced some real bad stuff - MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) - which is a champ at poisioning groundwater. Different blends of gasoline base stock go bad in different ways - some decompose in the presence of sunlight, others attack fuel system components.
Corn ethanol is, I hope, an intermediate step - there are pilot plants operating on a process to make cellulose - based ethanol. the real problem with corn ethanol is the amount of water required by the corn.

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