Cars to run on fuel from waste

This is some good news coming in the midst of oil prices rising & oil resources depleting.

 

Cars to run on fuel from waste

 

Vehicles will soon run on fuel made from household waste as a chemical company in Britain has found a way to make bioethanol from rubbish.

 

INEOS, world’s third largest chemical company, said it had patented a method of producing fuel from municipal solid waste, agricultural waste and organic commercial waste and it planned to sell the bioethanol fuel in industrial quantities by 2010. The bioethanol that INEOS produces will have to be combined with a fossil fuel as very few cars in Britain run solely on bioethanol.

 

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Idea is good but I am a little suspicious about the feasibility. I am worried about the volume. How much fuel will they be able to produce with what volume of rubbish? These kind of technologies start with a bang but fade away very soon.



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Bhushan, even I had read about this. But they won't directly shift to bioethanol. They would start of by mixing it with the current fuel used like bio-diesel and later on maybe shift completely to it



I tried this and I had understeer, I tried that and I had oversteer, at the end of the corner I just ran out of talent!

None of the current IC engines can run of 100% ethanol-it can only be used as a mixture with existing fuels-in fact 85% ethanol blend has been used in brazil for almost a decade.

nowhere in the article is there a mention of running the same as the 'only fuel' in the vehicle.