How Biobutanol Can Be Used as a Motor Fuel Christine and Scott Gable are hybrid auto and alternative fuel experts who have brewed their own biodiesel and traveled 125,000 miles on waste vegetable oil. Biobutanol is four-carbon alcohol ...
How Biobutanol Can Be Used as a Motor Fuel - Treehugger Biobutanol has a higher energy content than ethanol, so there is a much lower loss of fuel economy. With an energy content of about 105,000 BTUs/gallon (versus ethanol’s approximate 84,000 BTUs ...
EPA’s new super fuel could spell trouble for ethanol The EPA is expected to soon approve an application to sell BP’s biobutanol as a 16-percent gasoline blend. The agency, in its proposal to approve the fuel, called it an “attractive option ...