Comments on: Ethanol driven cars: What Malawi must do

By: Abhi

Abhi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:23:47 +0000

Ethanol is a nice thing to use. But for using ethanol, I think some modification in engine will be needed. Basically present time vehicles uses engine which are especially made for using petrol as a fuel. We can use ethanol in that engine but it will affect the engine at slow rate. So, if we are planning to use ethanol then we should make engines especially for using ethanol as a fuel and no additives will be required.

By: Dendy Young

Dendy Young — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:31:28 +0000

Ethanol engines use 25 percent more ethanol per mile than gasoline. But ethanol usually sells at somewhere between a third to half of the price of gas. Ethanol can compete with petrol even with oil prices at $35 a barrel which is half of today’s price.
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By: frank

frank — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:48:49 +0000

a Brazilian company ABC Esso sell an adapter in the U.S. that lets any gasoline vehicle burn up to 100 percent ethanol.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:56:58 +0000

Ethanol can definitely work for some countries in Africa, so long as it doesn’t do to the commodity market what corn did in the USA. I wonder what has happened with this today?

By: John

John — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:22:05 +0000

Ethanol has great potential, but we should be wary of it pushing back grain production.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:15:46 +0000

I hope the Malawi receives some interneational support and recognition with this idea.Richard´s last blog post..Nepal Has Google Friend Connect

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 24 May 2009 18:08:03 +0000

Buying Ethanol cars is at least what we can do to help our environment. I really hope that many people will do it in the future.

By: dmitri

dmitri — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:36:34 +0000

Clement, you’ve got a very interesting blog, I must tell you! it’s the third post that I’m reading and the third one that I really want to comment
What I have to tell about ethanol, and alternative fuels, is that this is the future that we want for our planet, this is what we must strive for! reducing CO2 emissions need to be reduced, otherwise we don’t leave a clean planet to our children, but we leave a junkyard behind us…