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What is it?
Alcohol fuels are combustibles just like fossil fuels, they are made from renewable resources like crops or even trash like discarded paper. Therefore the energy changes in burning the alcohol for fuel would be the same as burning gasoline, Chemical -- Kinetic + Heat. Ethanol is one type of alcohol fuel that is used often. it is produced by the decomposition of renewable resources like sugarcane or wood. Glucose (a simple sugar) is created in the plant by photosynthesis 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + light → C6H12O6 + 6 O2 During ethanol fermentation, glucose is decomposed into ethanol and carbon dioxide C6H12O6 → 2 C2H5OH+ 2 CO2 + heat During combustion ethanol reacts with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and heat: C2H5OH + 3 O2 → 2 CO2 + 3 H2O + heat

A Real World Example
Brazil is the best example of alcohol fuel users in the world, they create their ethanol fuel from sugarcane and are considered the first country to have a sustainable bio-fuel economy. In April of 2006 50% of Brazil's cars used ethanol fuel. Brazil produced 24.9 billion litres of ethanol fuel in 2009 which accounted for 37.7% of all of the worlds ethanol fuel.

Facts and Figures

 * Alcohol burns more completely, thus increasing combustion efficiency.[[image:perform.jpg width="291" height="226" align="right"]]
 * Ethanol fuel was Henry Ford's preferred fuel
 * Alcohol fuels have high octane (octane being the resistance of fuels to autoignition in spark-ignition internal combustion engines)
 * America and Brazil produce 89% of all ethanol fuel
 * Ethanol produced from sugar cane can have up to 900% more energy than is used to produce it.
 * It produces 23.5 MJ/l
 * Releases only 101 600 BTU/imp gal

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Environmental Effects===

Advantages
-Ethanol produced from sugarcane provides energy that is renewable and less carbon intensive than oil. -Bioethanol reduces air pollution thanks to its cleaner emissions, and also contributes to mitigate global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Disadvantages
-Deforestation -Water overuse