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jokuhl on June 20, 2006 - 1:34pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
This Link References RR's numbers on lines 13 and 22

Pure Energy Systems
http://peswiki.com/index.php?title=Directory:Butanol&curid=3716&diff=20327&oldid=20318
"Butanol as a biofuel (http://www.lightparty.com/Energy/Butanol.html) - Butanol solves the safety problems associated with the infrastructure of the hydrogen supply. Reformed butanol has four more hydrogen atoms than ethanol, resulting in a higher energy output and is used as a fuel cell fuel."

I suspect this might be a familiar site to some of you here, is it responsibly run?

Bob Fiske

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Robert Rapier on June 20, 2006 - 2:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Butanol is potentially a better motor fuel than ethanol. I did write an essay on bio-butanol a couple of months ago:

Bio-butanol

Butanol has some significant advantages over ethanol, and probably has a better EROI because it is a less polar molecule than ethanol. Of course, we still won't be able to produce enough to make much of a dent in our oil consumption.

RR

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