Alternative Fuel World

Now that you know what methanol is, one limited use for methanol is in automotive fuel. Internal combustion engines, mainly  by virture of the fact that is it not nearly as falmmable as gasoline.

Pure methanol is required by rule to be used in USAC sprint cars, midgets, modifieds, etc etc, other dirt track series and Champcars.

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E85 Ethanol has no harm on non-flex fuel engines. a independant study recently found that using E85 in your cars engine wether it is made for E85 or not. Most car manufactuers won’t cover any fuel over E10 how ever.

The Chevrolet Impala has been one of the best selling cars for the last 50 years. Every year the Impala gets more and more improvements in the car, on the outside and this year under the hood!

The 2008 Cheverolet Impala marks the first year that the popular car is available to run on E85 Ethanol fuel. The Impala didn’t sacrifice any engine sizes or power either to achieve this. The E85 will run on most the models for the Impala. THe SS Impala with the V8 engine is the only trim level that will run soley on gasoline.

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Watch an introductory video on the new-to-the-USA Nissan Cube

The 2009 Nissan Cube is being called “Mobile Device” and promotional language from its makers includes such language as “personalize it. share it. connect with it.” How exactly does one “connect” with their car? We’ll find out later. But my favorite phrase from Nissan is “Share a loungey interior and smart fuel efficiency with your top four.” Okay, if that doesn’t sound like Nissan wants to appeal to the boxy Honda Fit, Kia Soul, Toyota Yaris, and Scion xB crowd, I don’t know what does. Are they trying a little too hard to reach their targeted demographic of the trendy car lover? Or is the Cube all it’s hyped to be? While Nissan Cube forums are very slow right now, is it the quiet before the storm?

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Coal is a combustible black sedimentary rock composed mostly of carbon and hydrocarbons. Its the most abundant fossil fuel produced in the United States. The carbon is compressed over millions and billions of years in the Earths soil.

Coal is a non-renewable energy source because it takes millions of years to create and we’re consuming more every year than whats being produced. The energy in coal comes from the energy stored by the plants and animals that lived millions and billions of years ago. Think back to some of the first life forms that were on the planet.

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More people are becoming concerned about the environmental impacts of using coal for energy.

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas are non-renewable source of energy. The fossil fuels are formed from animals and plants that lived up to 500 million years ago and have been covered over time in the Earth’s soil deep below the surface.

The fossil fuels are burned to release their chemical energy that they store. It comes as a surprise to many humans that fossil fuels currently compose close to 85% of the energy consumption in the world today.

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