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Straight Veggie Oil / Biodiesel Conversions 200

posted by  Trev29 on  Thu Nov 18 01:08 CST 2004
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"So how is it (ethanol) clean burning, and what does that term mean?"
The more complex/large the fuel molecule is, the more likely it is that it won't be burned fully. So complex hydrocarbons do make it out the exhaust pipe as particulate matter.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/question202.htm has some info and links to methanol and octane.

"It doesn't matter at all where the carbon is coming from, the fact is that it is being put into the atmosphere, regardless of what we are burning ==> Less oxygen, more CO2, more warming."
You missed my point. The increase in CO2 if from the carbon that was removed from the atmosphere and stored in the ground millions of years ago and is now being re-introduced into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels.

(CO2 levels in the far past were much higher and the earth and dinosaurs and related ecosystems were "suffering" from global warmth back then.)

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