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To: Citizen Tom Paine

“One practical problem with methanol for use in internal combustion engines that I never hear mentioned is that methanol dissolves water like a shot. If you fill up a gas tank with methanol and let in set it absorbs a lot of water in a week or two.”

That surely doesn’t sound technologicly impossible to resolve and cheaply.


6 posted on 02/03/2008 7:27:48 PM PST by Delacon (Don't Immanentize the Eschaton.)
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To: Delacon; Citizen Tom Paine
If you fill up a gas tank with methanol and let in set it absorbs a lot of water in a week or two.

That surely doesn’t sound technologicly impossible to resolve and cheaply.

That problem is already solved. Modern automobile gas tanks are sealed to the atmosphere when the gas cap is properly secured.

29 posted on 02/03/2008 7:57:06 PM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
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