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To: vaper69

Looks sketchy.

A combustion engine uses about 40% of the energy from gasoline for work and the other 60% gets dissipated as heat. If you could contain all the heat and transfer it back to work, then there would be a 150% increase in performance. A Mustang that gets 25mpg would now get 62.5mpg if the engine was 100% efficient.

Not sure how the guy is getting the additional 47.5mpg? Also he’s burning E85 which is even less efficient than just gasoline.


2 posted on 06/05/2009 4:17:09 PM PDT by avacado
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To: avacado

Gotta love the government mandating food crops to be destroyed (turned into “fuel” is absolutely, totally useless and counterproductive).


3 posted on 06/05/2009 4:22:12 PM PDT by wastedyears (Rock and roll ain't worth the name if it don't make ya strut)
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To: avacado
Both Ethanol Boosting Systems (with Ford) and Ricardo Engrg. are working on some form of Ethanol Direct Injection, either as a supplementary fuel or primary fuel.

They are claiming up 25% fuel economy improvement over current engines.

Which leads me to believe he has to have a compression ratio through the moon with Direct Injection to make up for the other 2 systems massive amounts of turbocharging, or this is a scam.

And yes no way his he going to get the marginal increases that these two other engine houses are not, I want to see engineering drawings, or I'll write this one off. Something doesn't pass the smell test.

4 posted on 06/05/2009 4:24:33 PM PDT by taildragger (Palin / Mulally 2012)
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