Skip to content Menu Menu Home Methanol VS Ethanol Technical Merits and Political Favoritism September 21, 2022 by Finley Cox The previous essay  sparked a lively discussion about the potential of methanol as a fuel , so I decided to write an essay particularly devoted to methanol . I was especially motivated to write this because of hypocrites who profess to be all about renewable energy and weaning the U.S . off of foreign oil â which explains their rabid support for corn ethanol â and then when the conversation turns to methanol they start to bad mouth . it When talking about methanol , hypocrites will tell you that âit is toxic.â But these people have never raised that issue over highly toxic denatured ethanol . They speculate  that capital costs will be low for cellulosic
Skip to content Menu Menu Home Worldâ s Smallest Gasoline Engine Technology Breakthrough September 21, 2022 by Finley Cox While I try to be very careful about posting hype masquerading as a legitimate technology breakthrough , this story is too good to pass up even though it contains a lot of hype I donâ t know about the prospects for commercial success as I have said before , I have been waiting for my DNA computer for 15 years but this story is interesting and : topical New mini petrol engine There is a copyrighted picture at the link showing the engine resting on a fingertip . Some excerpts from the : story Scientists have built the smallest petrol engine â tiny enough to power a . watch The mini-motor , which runs for two years on a single squirt of lighter fuel , is set to
Skip to content Menu Menu Home What Makes Up the Cost of a Gallon of Gasoline Gas Price September 21, 2022 by Finley Cox Gas Price Breakdown : Itâ s All About the Cost of Crude Oil âWhat am I paying for in a gallon of gas â is a question on peopleâ s minds and often posed by regular visitors to Consumer Energy Report With the assistance of the Energy Information Administration , who provided the data see the methodology they used for calculating the component percentages at the end of this column I was able to break it down into a series of charts from 2000-2012. For a more detailed look into the recent spike in gas prices , see: Charting the Dramatic Gas Price Rise of the Last Decade Figure 1. The composite share of various components that make up the price of a gallon of gas ,
Skip to content Menu Menu Home Road Trip Thoughts on the Satsop Nuclear Power Station September 21, 2022 by Finley Cox My wife and I recently took a weekend road trip to view the annual shore bird migration along the Washington coast . Because it was along our route , we made a short stop in the town of . Satsop Cooling Towers The above image of a cooling tower was taken at the unfinished Satsop  nuclear power station , which is now serving as a development park . Use your left mouse button to click here  to see a higher resolution image and then left click once again on that image to see an even higher resolution photo of this cooling tower . Now employ your mouse wheel to scroll up and down that high resolution photo . Use the stairs zigzagging along the side to get a sense of .