On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:49:38 +0800, Jonathan Wilson
That would work as long as you could buy cars with engines that actually ran on that stuff.There's all sorts of 80% ethanol.Brazil is teeming with them.
Bringing in ethanol engines and car models, as well as getting ethanol at the pump at service stations would be a pain though because the oil majors would try to protect their more profitable petrol lines.And that's buttuming we can get domestic ethanol production down to a cost thats sustainable without piles of government subsidies.
Biodiesel will take care of itself over time.
Hydrogen isnt really a fuel, but a mobile energy source akin to a battery.You need an energy source to make hydrogen, so all you are really doing there is converting one energy source (usually heat and-or electricity from a power station of some kind) into another (hydrogen) that you can transport and use.
Hydrogen economies are probably something that will become more widespread in the future, but we arent there yet.Although Iceland is heading that way quickly.
aleady for other markets.I think the problem is one of introducing both it, and the fuel source into Australia.That means having an ethanol industry that can produce at a compebreastive cost, having a distribution network for ethanol and then the engines will follow.
Its because of the chemistry of ethanol.Engines are either designed for it or not.Its really an engine manufacturing issue there.
