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Date:         Tue, 22 May 2007 21:29:09 -0700
Reply-To:     Pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
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From:         Pensioner <al_knoll@PACBELL.NET>
Subject:      See two aitch five oh aitch and Water
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www.sacbee.com/110/story/162586.html


A little math background necessary but an interesting take on fueling our
bricks and the 'system cost' of C2-H5-OH.


Remembering my organic chemistry a bit, the energy from burning hydrocarbons
comes from breaking the C-H bonds.  The larger the number of C-H bonds the
higher the potentential energy available in the hydrocarbon. Alcohol burns
to CO2 and H2O.  For the enterprising, the amount of available energy in a
mole of ethanol is left as an excercise for the bog.


You can't win
You can't break even
You can't get out of the game


-- Everyman's laws of thermodynamics.
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