Re: ethanol use...

Posted by paul on March 14, 2005 at 11:45:48 from (66.60.196.147):

In Reply to: Re: ethanol use... posted by Tim Shultz on March 14, 2005 at 08:27:53:

Minnesota must be way, way ahead of the curve on this issue..... All pumps are E10, so it is easy to get, and E10 will work fine in the tractor as is.

I went to a one day seminar on producing your own & converting gas tractors back in the 80's. In our cold temps, you need to start them on gasoline, get a little heat into it in winter, then switch to ethanol in winter. In summer no big deal. They were producing E95 perhaps on the farm in a big LP tank - the other 5% was water.

You build a small water jacket plate for the carb to mount on and use coolant to heat the carb area, or a simple tin shroud over the muffler and connect the air intake to this. Got your heat for winter use.

The ports need to be opened a bit, and some plastic/rubber parts may need to be swapped to different plastic/rubber parts. As mentioned, fuel filters will plug on old machines as the ethanol loosens all the crude in your tank.

That's about it.

E85 can be had at one in 5 fuel pumps here in rural Minnesota, shouldn't have to travel more than 20 miles to find it. Get your state government on the ball to get up to speed on this.

Minnesota is about to kick in the bio-diesel now, starting with 2% soybean oil in all diesel fuel sold. That will ramp up to 5% over the next couple of years.

Legislation is in the govt this week to boost the mandated E10 to be E20 for gasoline starting next year. Not sure if it will pass, but would require all road gasoline to be 20% ethanol.

Those states that lage behind are going to be left out on the energy front. We have windmills popping up all over the sw corner of the state as well.

All of these projects are long-term investments, cost a lot up front, look like they won't pay off - but then bam, price of gasoline goes up 60%, and suddenly it looks pretty good. We have some of the cheapest electricity in the nation from coal-fired plants; yet the stae mandates some re-investment into wind & other bio-electric plants just to get the ball rolling.

Many other states, oddly California among them, are opposed to such things. I think those states might find themselves on the outside looking in. There are ethanal plants, owned by farmers, all over the state of Minnesota. Couple of soybean crushing plants are being built, more being thought about.

Where will your state's crops be used, where will your fuel come from in the future? Where will the jobs be located?

--->Paul

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