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Don Foreman
 
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Default A novel gasoline substitute

On Fri, 5 May 2006 06:52:11 -0700, "azotic" wrote:


Kinda scary and interesting at the same time.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/libra...r_on_Acetylene

I wonder how many miles per pound he gets.

Best Regards
Tom.

There is the minor matter of what to do with the approximately 207 lb
of calcium hydroxide left from making each 100 lb of acetylene. 100
lbs of gasoline is about 15 gallons, one fill at the pump. At one
fill per week, you'd have about 5 tons of white alkaline goo after a
year of operation. Perhaps one could treat the goo with HCL to make
calcium chloride and sell it to the highway departments in snow states
to rust out people's cars......thus getting support from the
automakers!