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Sorra
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 Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject: OMG HELP!!!!!!! |
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I know you guys are the best piraters and web surfers 0o. I have my physics final I've been working on the the last month due on friday. It's on alternative fuels, (even though it's nothing to do with physics....) I have to plan a trip on EDiesel fuel, (blend of Ethanol and normal diesel) and contrast it to the trip on gasoline. (an imaginary trip)
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Price of Ediesel ( I have a 7% Ethanol price but there's a prob with that) (I really need the price of Ethanol and Diesel IN CALIFORNIA.... I found the diesel.)
Price of Gas:I have this.
Miles per gallon on gas and Ediesel: (this is what I need the most!!)
Location of where you can buy Ediesel.: there isn't one in CA. You can get regular diesel at any gas station, but I dont know if you can buy tons of Ethanol from a store like Propane. I found like 4 places that commercially manufacture it like UC Berkeley  So I'd have to say I'd have to blend it on my own I guess....
how many gallons a car on average holds :I think it's like 16 right?
[there's a bunch of other stuff but I think I can do that on my own.... hopefully....]
THANKS A TON IF YOU HELP XD Why can't we just have hampster powered cars?....... |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:53 am Post subject: Re: OMG HELP!!!!!!! |
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| Geternity_Sorra wrote: | | I know you guys are the best piraters and web surfers 0o. |
Um...I think our reputation exceeds us.
I have never heard of Ediesel. I have never seen a place where you can get regular ethanol let alone Ediesel. Probably has to do with the facts that ethanol takes more energy to make than you can ever get out of it, it's much more expensive and the ethanol is corrosive to the plastic and rubber parts of normal engines so that you need a modified engine. You probably already knew all that.
It sounds to me like something that doesn't exist outside of hardcore liberal enclaves like UC Berkley so you'd better make it a real short trip unless those other three places are within one tank of each other. As far as I can tell from a quick google search, the stuff is quite experimental and isn't really available commercially.
I'd also say that you should take a trip on whatever fuels are actually available to outside the Land of Fruits and Nuts so you can get an idea what the real world is like. Take your idiot professor with you, maybe he'll learn something too.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:52 am Post subject: |
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We have to have ethanol in our gasoline down here in Houston, but I don't think it's in diesel. @_@
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| How many miles per gallon do you get? If nothing else it'll give me an idea to guesstimate 0o.... Where do you get Ethanol? from stores or the gas stations? |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know what kind of mileage I get. It isn't good enough.
Ethanol isn't legal to buy straight up. It's grain alcohol, aka White Lightning.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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freaken comp! this is the third time i"v had to post this!
My crazy teacher is making it like a 500 miles trip 0o... Yeah I know all that crap isn't worth it or it'd be used widely by now lol. The UCs are crazy lbieral nutcase like you said XD Santa Cruiz runs naked in the freaken forest once every year 0o....
LOL thanks, cuz I found Ethanol's price about 25 cents per gallon on anything I searched... I figured that wasn't right |
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GrinfilledCelt
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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More like 25 dollars a gallon from the back of some redneck's pickup truck.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Geternity_Sorra wrote: | | LOL I would love doing a REAL trip... this is all an imaginary thing, we don't actually get to go anywhere.... dangit lol. Yeah, I don't have a car that runs on Ediesel anyway 0o.... Good thing I didn't get Wind powered cars instead... |
At least wind is available. Maybe the hidden point of this assignment is to demonstrate how impractical and ridiculous this stuff is.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| SERIOUSLY? LMAO XD Almost as sad as this "1,300 miles per gallon" car I found while looking XD there are some real fruits out there. |
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Anime Otaku Chik
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Eh. Gas down here (regular with added ethanol) is about $2.07 a gallon. Diesel (w/o) is... $2.39. D:
I'm going to guess outside of the city gas is around $1.97 or $1.95 because they don't add ethanol.
In my car, with my lead foot I get about 22-23 miles per gallon. I used to get 24 T___T
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| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:22 am Post subject: |
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good! that comes close to my 22.2 miles per gallon I got from somewhere on the net 0o... I'm sort of worried cuz... my "Ediesel" cost I found was 1.20$.... no where NEAR what you have 0o....
regular Diesel here is 2.91$ so I guess if you add 10cents like in your thing it's about 3.01$... close enough dang it XD
Texas's gas is WAY cheeper isn't it? 0o.... |
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Anime Otaku Chik
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Well, I don't drive a diesel. My mom does in her bug  and she gets around 35 miles a gallon.
Yeah. I guess Texas gas is cheaper. ^_^;; Still too expensive though.
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CURSES...CCUUUUURRRRSEESSS..CCCUUUUURRRSSSESSS!!!!
MY PRINTER IS JAMMED!!! AND I COULDN"T RESUME MY WORK!!! ARRRGGHHHHH!!! THE FRUSTRATION!!! How...WHY..WHY??? Anyway....I'm pretty mad right now. It worked prettty well moments ago and now it's jammed. It says paper jam on the LCD monitor, BUT THERE'S NO PAPER JAM INSIDE IT!!!! ARrrRGGhh....*continues cursing the printer*
Curses....curses.......
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| Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:04 am Post subject: |
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Just bash it with your sword or something...... (curses printers with you)
I had to quest all over campus for a way to print out my stupid papers and crap for my Japanese class............ my back hurts now!!! (jumps up and down on Dread's printer) |
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I prefer paper preserves to paper jam. Both are preferable to paper jelly.
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