[jjotto]

Interesting concept. Three or four years away isn't far in auto development.

[libstripper]

So they take a fuel that, due to its low carbon content,
isn’t as powerful as gasoline, reduce that carbon content to zero, and expect to get any vaguely reasonable mileage out of it???

[exDemMom]

I really don't get it. Where does the energy to break the C-H bonds come from? If it comes from burning the ethanol, then how much energy is lost to strip the hydrogen from the remaining EtOH? And what are the chemical reactions here?

H₃C-CH₂OH -> ???

[Original Lurker]

Pfft!

Crude is a gift from the Almighty.
Just over half goes to make gasoline.

Crude is used to make everything from highways to surgical plastics to fertilizers.

Pfft!

[353FMG]

Ethanol is for drinking — not driving.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Rather than pumping hydrogen into the cars at very high pressure, the company proposes to offer a different kind of fuel-cell car — one that is filled with ethanol instead.

That fuel, or an ethanol-and-water blend, is "reformed" to produce a supply of hydrogen on board the car itself.

Yeah, waste energy "reforming" the ethanol into CO2 and H2, because that's better than burning the ethanol into CO2 and H2O. Brilliant!!!

[familyop]

"The company says it doesn't expect to have the technology commercialized until 2020."

Oil demand will probably be crossing production within 6 to 9 months, and it appears that bankers with interests in low energy prices have run out of schemes for the most part. It would probably be wise for many to live much closer to their jobs.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Shame they want to add water, I prefer my ethanol neat.

[Organic Panic]

That will be fun in the winter time.