Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "Why Does Ethanol Make So Much Power? (Versus Gasoline)" video.

@christopherabramor3012 He made lots of assumptions in that video, so its not entirely accurate. I make ethanol from cattails, they dwarf corn for yield per acre. 250-500 per acre vs 1000-10,000 gallons. The higher number being cattails that are remediating nitrates out of water, i.e sewage and run off from feedlots. As they clean the water they grow HUGE, and thus produce more starch which means they make a lot more ethanol. Where he goes off the rails is assuming corn is the only way to go, and I suspect he is using pimental's eroei numbers which are skewed to the point of absurdity. However absurd his radically biased study was and no matter how soundly it was trounced in peer review, its still the jacked up numbers and study that people use when they are trying to downplay ethanol. Also the corn is not destroyed in the process, the part of corn that is used to produce ethanol is the part that livestock cannot eat. The leftovers make a high quality cattle feed called DDGS, most people completely ignore there fact. Cattle put on muscle mass (meat) 17% faster on DDGS than they do on other unfermented corn based feeds... according to the university of Iowa a few decades back.
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@Bucky1836 yeah, got it in 2006. He was a bit behind in the automotive end of it, we can do even more than he knew, but he was on the right track. I took his info and used it as a springboard, and have been building my engines to specifically take advantage of ethanol. I can't run pump gas in them, but I get excellent power and mileage from them running vodka. The static compression ratios are too high for pump gas, but they use less fuel than the low compression engines I had in the same cars, that were the same size or smaller. With EFI and heating the fuel I get even better mileage, my '76 C10 will be the test mule for a modern engine running mostly factory EFI and parts, and those trucks aren't exactly aerodynamic, so if I can get good mileage from it, imagine what I can do with a smaller vehicle.. lol. My still design has been improved too. Its kinda funny how some of my innovations are now common among home distillers. Lots of people have bad info out there, and they are unaware of things you can do with engines running ethanol that make gasoline engines look pathetic.
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@Bucky1836 ah I just realized you already have his book. Start searching the channels on here for people distilling spirits, change the still design to a more efficient one, and don't care how it tastes or smells, and you make fuel roughly the same way.
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