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What Is Ethanol
On some models this comes as an option, and on some it is a standard feature. To identify whether a vehicle is flexible fuel, check the owners manual and inside the gas cap. Also, visit www.ethanol.org/e85.html to link to a complete list of FFVs, including the new '06 model year vehicles.
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What Is Ethanol
| January 6th, 2009 09:13 AM
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Brazil stocks up in early trading - WTOP Radio
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazil 's stocks rose in early trading, with the Ibovespa stock index up 1.1 percent at 41,956 an hour into the session. Rising oil and metal prices Tuesday _ along with jumps in overseas stocks _ prompted the gains. Shares ...
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| January 5th, 2009 02:22 PM
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Economist: 'Blending Wall' Stands In Way Of Ethanol Growth - CattleNetwork.com
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Ethanol production opened the door to the renewable fuels industry. The industry now must get past an imposing wall of federal regulations and market conditions if it hopes to grow, said a Purdue University agricultural economist. "The ethanol ...
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A look at ethanol as an alternative fuel
Every mile driven in traditionally fueled vehicles brings the world closer to the day fossil fuels dry up. The U.S. government has approved some mandates to lessen the reliance on gasoline and diesel. Environmentalists are pushing for alternatives to power U.S. cars and trucks, such as ethanol-based fuel or biodiesel.
What is ethanol fuel?
Ethanol is a high-octane fuel basically grain alcohol produced from crops such as corn. The American Coalition for Ethanol advocates its production as a method of reducing Americas dependence upon foreign energy sources.
E85 is a motor fuel that blends 85 percent ethanol with 15 percent gasoline and can be used in flex-fuel vehicles. It is sold in 37 states at 600 gas stations, Car and Driver magazine reported in July.
Making fuel ethanol more cheaply
Ethanol offers a renewable supply of auto fuel, and it can also reduce pollution. But in the United States, fuel ethanol is made almost exclusively from corn kernels, and it provides little more energy than raising, harvesting, and processing the corn consumes.
Determined to help wean the world off petroleum, bioengineer Michael Raab is putting enzymes into corn that will make it easier and cheaper to convert the entire plant--kernels, husk, stalk, and leaves--into ethanol. These proteins allow processors to break the complex carbohydrates that make up most of the corn plant into simple sugars that can be easily fermented into ethanol.
TR: What is your company, Agrivida, doing?
Raab: We're taking the processing enzymes used to break down the leaves and the stalks and reëngineering them so they have no activity when they're in the plant.
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