Indy's E100 season starts today, kind of
The fastest way to burn E10 will soon get a chance to burn pure ethanol. The first truck carrying 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol bound for use in the IndyCar Series, which starts March 24, left the Renova ethanol plant in Torrington, Wyoming today. Indy's move to E100 is no secret – they cars used E10 all last year in preparation for this year's E100 switch – and new we're getting to brass tacks. January 31st, during the first Daytona International Speedway's Open Test of the season, will mark the first time all IndyCar Series cars will run on the 100 percent fuel-grade ethanol. This is according to EPIC, the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council.
Renova's Torrington facility will produce about 120,000 gallons of ethanol to the IndyCar Series this year.
[Source: Ethanol Promotion and Information Council]
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Andy 11:58PM (1/16/2007)
I suppose F1 will prefer bio-diesel. Even so, this is a wonderful move. I don't know how much effect it will have on the regular market, but it's a good step in responsible, clean motoring. If only NASCAR would follow suit.
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Glenn 1:14PM (1/17/2007)
What's really scary is, reading yesterday's news about ethanol on this very website, it means that 120,000 human beings won't eat for a year.
Plus, ethanol car fires have invisible flames, don't they? Doesn't this put the drivers at risk?
Ethanol is DUMB.
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Glenn 1:16PM (1/17/2007)
Apologies. Math correction. 25 gallon tank of ethanol = 1 person not fed for a year. Not each gallon.
Therefore, "only" 4800 people go hungry for a year so we can watch the racers go roundy round.
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Jimmy 2:01PM (1/17/2007)
Ethanol fires have visible flames which are considered "easily visible in daylight" by the US DOT. Methanol is the far more toxic fuel which burns with a nearly invisible flame in daylight. Indy cars had been running on methanol before the switch to ethanol.
No one is "going hungry" because of ethanol production or Indy racing. World hunger issues exist because of politics not a shortage in food supply.
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