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Old 03-09-2012, 08:49 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by AKA-22 View Post
im in the business of ethanol production and trust me its not the solution its only a temporary fix ,natural gas is going to be the next big thing.....
I agree. Had a discussion about natural gas over the weekend. Apparantly big companies like Walmart are kicking off the transition to natural gas by running it in some of their fleet vehicles.

I don't want to de-rail this thread but I'd love to know the energy properties of natural gas. For instance, ethanol seems to have less energy than gas in that a vehicle has to burn more of it to maintain the same amount of engine output. I wonder how natural gas compares and what if any advantages it might have (like E85 is very knock resistant). Would an engine, say a 3.6 V6 natural gas engine by able to output 300 horse like todays V6 gas engines can?

Sorry, my mind just has too many questions sometimes lol.
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