• WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      You can make fuel out of potatoes too. It’s not as productive as corn per acre (obviously) so it isn’t done at scale.

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      7 hours ago

      While ethonol is cool u need almost twice as much vs gasoline. The stoich point of gasoline is 14.7 a:f ratio, where ethonol is 9. However u can make a lot of power on corn because when u douse the pistons with that much fuel u are keeping things cooler 😎 but also why some older stuff doesn’t like the corn blend gas… Among other issues like attracting moisture.