Re: Imagine: 500 Miles Per Gallon

On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:43:55 GMT, fkasner <fkasner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Go back to school. Study some chemistry and especially thermodynamics.
When you have mastered these LAWS (they are not opinions but laws of
nature) do the calculations. Even 100% efficiency (unobtainable) you
can't get such fuel "mileages". Do not try to pull the wool over other
people's eyes. The laws of nature cannot be legislated or prayed for or
wished for change.

Go back and read the article carefully. It is misleading.

It says "petroleum as only one element among many", and "the average
new American car will get 300 miles per gallon of petroleum. And I
fully expect in this period to see cars in the United States that get
500 miles per gallon."

Note the "miles per gallon of petroleum".

Mix a teaspoon of gasoline into a gallon of ethanol, and you're
probably talking tens of thousands of miles "per gallon of petroleum".
But why stop there? 100% ethanol would yield an infinite number of
miles per gallon of petroleum.


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