[Gmecm] Ethanol

Rob Weinstock weinstro
Sun May 8 05:44:50 UTC 2005


>  It will kill you if you do...
>To keep it from being used as an alcoholic beverage/intoxicant, federal law
>mandates they add substances to it to make it non palatable and poisonous.

Hmmm. When studying for a master's degree, we built an HEV, which used E100. 
As in 100% ethanol. As in nothing but ethanol. Due to pressures from ATF, we 
turned it into E95 by blending it with 5% gasoline. E95 was nasty smelling, 
raw or burnt. This was back a few years, however.

Regards,

Rob






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