Gasoline Substitute

Basics

• This page goes over Drop In Replacements for (Fossil Fuel Derived) Gasoline
• For more general liquid fuels see Biofuels

Bio-Butanol

• Butanol is a promising choice
• It doesn't absorb water like Ethanol
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Ethanol

• Ethanol is common worldwide, typically as a blend (ie E-85 in the USA etc)
• Brazil has a working "Ethanol Economy" and sells E-100
  • This is most likely due to an eccess of sugar due to widespread sugarcane farming

Methanol

• Methanol has some advantages over Ethanol
• Mainly it is easily made from Syngas via catalysts