Ethanol Fuel

Ethanol fuel could be alternative to fossil fuel.

If you are looking for an alternative to gasoline look no further than ethanol fuel which can be pure ethanol or be combine with gasoline in percentages that vary according to desired levels produced.  With anhydrous ethanol or ethanol not containing water you may find that it being blended along with gasoline in different levels of concentration ensures that consumption of petroleum gets reduced and it will also lessen pollution in the air.

The advantage of using ethanol fuel lies in it being a particulate free burning fuel source which forms carbon dioxide and water through clean combustion and it produces less carbon monoxide than gasoline. However, some of the benefits of clean environment using ethanol fuel are negated when one considers the pollution that producing ethanol creates and many environmentalists have objected to modern farming practices, especially factory farming. This would lead to substituting automobile pollution with

Vehicles that could be run on both gasoline and ethanol fuel.

US vehicles have different levels of ethanol fuel tolerance and vary from individual vehicle to vehicle, while in Brazil there are many  vehicles that can run on hydrated ethanol and also a mixture of ethanol fuel and gas so long as there is at least twenty percent ethanol contained visiting the mixture. There are also some flexible fuel cars that can also run on pure gasoline and Renault and Fiat are two manufactures that produce these types of cars.

Ethanol fuel is produced  from agricultural crops or forest residues and is already being manufactured visiting the US mid west from corn. Ethanol fuel is one of the cleanest energy sources that is around at the moment and is being used more and more visiting many parts of the world. Many tests have been performed by car manufacturers which say that a correctly blended ethanol fuel is ok for use in cars today.

To mass produce ethanol fuel, one would need to ferment sugar or hydrate ethylene from petroleum as well as some additional sources. At present, ethanol fuel is produced from crops and is a sustainable energy resource having many advantages with regard to a cleaner environment as well as long term economic benefits over fossil fuels such as gasoline or diesel. Extraction is from sugar or starch using many different crops and is mainly dependent on how much land is available as well as soil conditions and availability of adequate water and sunlight.

The prime use for ethanol fuel is in powering cars though it can also be used to drive a tractor and even airplanes and one can get ethanol engines that are customized gasoline engines which do not need many adjustments to function consistently. Though ethanol fuel consumption is a third higher than that of gasoline one may, through higher compression rates, get better power output. In the case of flexible fuel cars, the power output is the same whether it is gasoline or hydrated ethanol driven.

Finally, support for ethanol fuel is growing very quickly and the industry is going through a massive growth as it becomes more excepted as a option to fossil fuels