[Land-speed] Ethanol?

[Savethesaltflats at aol.com]

Thank you Wes for your question about Ethanol and pointing to  this article.  
 
Our opinion is that the article is comparing apples to oranges:  
 
A.  Comparing an Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to electric motor  
technology is not a fair comparison.  ICE at its highest  efficiencies is half of what 
electric motor efficiencies are and the  article is incomplete in other 
aspects as well. 
 
B.  Present day infrastructure for transportation would  require complete 
restructuring for the alternative energies  described in the article whereas 
Ethanol requires little to no  infrastructure improvements.
 
C.  The article doesn't mention that Alternative Fuel Vehicles  (AFV) to run 
off these energy sources are no where near in mass production  whereas 
flex-fuel vehicles are. 
 
D.  In all the articles and research we've read  Cellulosic Ethanol is 
favored.
 
As it relates to lsr we feel it would be good business for  lsr to support 
AFV Motor Sports, since the environmentally friendly  cars we drive in the 
future will be made to perform better and faster as history  demonstrates that 
testing and tuning petroleum products on the race tracks has  improved, even 
reinvented the cars we drive today.
 
Respectfully,
The Singletons

 
In a message dated 12/31/2008 12:43:23 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
wester6935 at comcast.net writes:

Think E  85 is the  answer?

http://www.nextautos.com/stanford-university-study-shows-ethanol-be-worst-form
-renewable-energy

I  wonder what the proponents would say about this  article.


 
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