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19 June 2005
Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:42:42 GMT Brazilians buck rising gas prices with innovative fuelvia Kjell Olsen2424 days agoLike tens of thousands of her countrymen, she is running her zippy red Fiat on pure ethanol extracted from Brazilian sugar cane. On a recent morning in Brazil’s largest city, the clear liquid was selling for less than half the price of gasoline.
Minnesota just ok’d a bill that called for higher ethanol content in gas, but running your entire car off the stuff sounds like fun.
Today about 40 percent of all the fuel that Brazilians pump into their vehicles is ethanol, known here as alcohol, compared with about 3 percent in the United States. No other nation is using ethanol on such a vast scale. The change wasn’t easy or cheap. But 30 years later, Brazil is reaping the return on its investment in energy security while the United States writes checks for $50-a-barrel foreign oil.
Flex Fuel vehicles use an engine that can run off either gas or ethanol, or any mix of the two.
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16 May 2005
Mon, 16 May 2005 20:47:42 GMT Treehugger: Argentinean Scientists Get Pure Hydrogen Through Ethanolvia Kjell Olsen2458 days ago(relatively) Pure hydrogen from ethanol, fun stuff. I just finished reading the chapter in The Long Emergency this afternoon where JHK tells why nothing will be able to drive the oil economy like oil itself did, but I sure hope it doesn’t come to what Kunstler says it will. I’m all for hydrogen cars.
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