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John McCoy

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On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 19:37:37 +0000 (UTC), John McCoy
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(Scott Lurndal) wrote in news:KTaCA.225725$ff2.3659
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John McCoy writes:

The invisible flames is the biggest safety issue with alcohol
fuels, but counterbalancing that, alcohol won't explode like
gasoline, and you can put it out with water whereas gas needs
a foam or CO2 extinquisher.

As I understand it, liquid gasoline itself won't explode,
but the vapor can.

Quite true, and the same applies to methanol. The difference
is gasoline is more volatile, so it turns into vapor much
more readily than methanol.

It also has twice the energy density. Rinse, repeat.

True, altho that has no bearing on it's propensity to explode.

John