X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmfepo103.cox.net ([68.230.241.145] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4c3j) with ESMTP id 4983072 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 13 May 2011 19:05:51 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.145; envelope-from=alventures@cox.net Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmfepo103.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20110513230516.EQLX20516.fed1rmfepo103.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 19:05:16 -0400 Received: from BigAl ([72.199.221.69]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id jB4Y1g0091WSgfc03B5GdH; Fri, 13 May 2011 19:05:16 -0400 X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.4DCDB92C.0050,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=6Gs6ih2qhyBJIJybVFJp2zJD/9EZIQHRgYEfUSF8mTo= c=1 sm=1 a=G8Uczd0VNMoA:10 a=swDsztNognk9GHlyB/l+AQ==:17 a=qDcMr4iZ6WVnuUnq4r0A:9 a=1ok0pe-pxZ3mtLIjRbAA:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=881zWKD7-2CgAylRkmsA:9 a=CzKMZ3am6tsTQhyG_HIA:7 a=swDsztNognk9GHlyB/l+AQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none From: "Al Gietzen" To: "'Rotary motors in aircraft'" Subject: Swift Fuel Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 16:05:41 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0025_01CC1187.B59DDA20" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6863 Thread-Index: AcwQEQa2kiXsyQM+R0uYVRA0+BrZOABuFNcg Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6090 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01CC1187.B59DDA20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Bill; wrote: It could cause Swift fuel and that stuff GAMI is making to be approved. Swift fuel costs about $2/gal and will not go up and down in price like Avgas. Swift fuel could be a viable replacement for 100LL, but not any time = soon. Current laboratory scale production costs are about $50/gallon. Swifts claim that at large commercial production scale the production cost (not retail cost) could be $2.00/ga. More unbiased reports suggest that if introduced, initial retail price would be about $10.00/ga. If, and = when, it is available for something near current 100LL prices, it could be = accepted. =20 But with rotary engines we don't care about that. We just want mogas = without ethanol - or at least less than 10% ethanol. =20 Al ------=_NextPart_000_0025_01CC1187.B59DDA20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Bill; wrote:

It could cause Swift fuel and that stuff GAMI = is making to be approved.  Swift fuel costs about $2/gal and will not = go up and down in price like Avgas.

Swift fuel could be a viable = replacement for 100LL, but not any time soon.  Current laboratory scale = production costs are about $50/gallon.  Swifts claim that at large commercial production scale the production cost (not retail cost) could be = $2.00/ga.  More unbiased reports suggest that if introduced, initial retail price would = be about $10.00/ga.  If, and when, it is available for something near = current 100LL prices, it could be accepted.

 

But with rotary engines we = don’t care about that. We just want mogas without ethanol – or at least = less than 10% ethanol.

 

Al

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