Jonathan Eisenthal
Don’t smoke. Case closed. And avoid smoking areas if you are a non-smoker. Which means don’t let people smoke in your home or at the entrance to the buildings where you work. Secondhand smoke is just as toxic for non-smokers as it is for those who are doing the smoking. Avoid h...
When used in cars and trucks, ethanol is usually mixed with a little gasoline to improve fuel economy. The resulting fuel is called E85, denoting 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gas. In 2007, there were 5.5 million Flex Fuel Vehicles on the road in the U.S. that could run on E85 f...
Ethanol isn’t blended into gasoline blendstock at the refineries, largely because ethanol can’t be transported through pipelines. It would damage them. Strong stuff! Instead, ethanol is most often blended in at the rack, closer to its ultimate destination. That’s why you’ll often see etha...
(Highway Bill) of 2005; and the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Thefuel creditsforbiodieselor renewable diesel credits, as well as fuel mixtures, including ethanol/gasoline blends, were established in the Volumetric Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) portion of the Jobs Bill. They are meant to provide ...
While turning corn into gasoline may sound like a feat worthy of King Midas, not everyone thinks the ethanol industry has the golden touch. N. Beckerman/Stone/Getty Images There's a certain poetic irony to the idea of modern society breaking free from its dependence on dwindling fossil fue...
Gasoline: Gasoline is the fuel used in vehicle combustion engines. It's made from the fractional distillation of petroleum, which is pumped out of the ground. Gasoline consists of the organic hydrogen carbon C8H18and sometimes ethanol and other additives. ...
There are a few different ways to make biodiesel, but most manufacturing facilities produce industrial biodiesel through a process called transesterification. In this process, the fat or oil is first purified and then reacted with an alcohol, usually methanol (CH3OH) or ethanol (CH3CH2OH) in the...
Properties of biofuels and e-fuels compared to diesel and gasoline It is difficult to universally characterize the properties of biofuels and e-fuels since both come in a variety of forms: They can be pure chemical species, e.g., in the case of bio-ethanol or e-methanol, or they can be...
(though a part called a glow plug might help when the engine is cold). In other words, diesel is heated up by being squeezed, while gasoline is lit with fire. Furthermore, gasoline is often mixed with as much as 10-percent ethanol, a highly flammable organic compound used as a biofuel...