[Allch Chcar]

Originally Posted by 82mm 4g63

No, I didn't, I was making sure you were referring to the Omnivore and not the Ricardo engine.



Again, I quoted the experts. Not my words, but Rod Beazley's of Ricardo.

"So-called flex-fuel engines use a mixture of fuels, the most common combination being around 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent ethanol. But these [Flex Fuel] engines tend to pay a 30 percent efficiency penalty because they are optimized to use gasoline, says Rod Beazley, product group director for gasoline at the engineering-research firm Ricardo, based in Detroit."

-http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/22198/



Yes, ethanol has a natural handicap because of it's energy density, I'm not arguing that it doesn't. What I'm saying(from the information I've gathered in these articles that I've read) is an engine running on ethanol(or an ethanol blend) designed and limited by gasoline's handicaps is NOT as efficient as an engine running on ethanol(or an ethanol blend) designed to utilize ethanol's unique characteristics.

okay okay. Thanks for clearing that up, my mistake. It just annoys me to no end to hear people say that .