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Originally Posted by dcb
I stopped reading after this. You specifically said:
10 gallons E10 460 miles
9 gallons of E0 495 miles (35 miles FURTHER)
9 gallons of gas plus one gallon of ethanol is more energy than just 9 gallons of gas. There are plenty of vehicles that make good power on nothing but ethanol.
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PLEASE tell me your not serious? OK some basics here. Do you know how much energy is in a gallon of gasoline (or ethanol for that matter)
a heck of a lot more than you will ever see from your car. Your car does not even touch .1 percent of 1 percent of the energy in a gallon of fuel.
100% energy conversion would mean half a gallon of gasoline and have a gallon of "anti" gasoline (antimatter) these would annihilate and produce as near to 100% energy conversion as is possible.
what we get is a fraction of a percent of the energy potential of our fuel converted to HEAT.
of "that" energy converted we extract on average what?? 20% to 25% of the heat energy produced and convert it to mechanical motion.
My numbers are not a lie. they are not a fabrication. they are a testable repeatable example of how the car operates on these two fuels. If you willing to put yourself up somewhere your welcome to join me for a week. I will even intentionally drive 800 miles in one week just so you can SEE the difference in fuel economy from E10 to E0 for your very own self with your very own eyes.
You issue with energy input is massively flawed. Because you can ONLY use such a stance if you ASSUME the engine PROPERLY FUNCTIONS on both fuels.
My contention is it DOES NOT function properly on E10 so it is never able to EXTRACT all the available energy that it normally can when NOT running on E10.
again PUT DIESEL in your gas car. There is more energy in a gallon of diesel than in a gallon of gasoline right?
so why won't your car go further? because IT WAS NOT DESIGNED to run on that fuel.
MY CAR was not designed to run on ethanol but it "can" sort of. Just not very well (just like if you mix a gallon of diesel in with 19 gallons of gasoline you car WILL still run just not very well). SO badly in fact that it HURTS overall FE above and beyond the amount added.