The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-07-17
ALCOHOL AS MOTOR FUEL.
Gives More Power When Used In Sps.
eiaI!y Designed Engines.

governments II independent labOra-
tories. are conclusive in establishing
the fact that any gasoline or kerosene
engine on the American market can
operate with alcohol as d fuel without
any structural change whatsoever. But.
Slice alcohol contains approximately
t. of the heating value Of gasoline by
weight, an engine adapted for the use
or gasoline or kerosene requires about
LIZ times Is much alcohol as gasoline
per horsepower hour. This consump-
ton, however. can be reduced by so
altering the construction of the motor
as to materially increase the compress
sion, and by using a carburetor which
will thoroughly vaporize the alcohol.
An engine designed for gasoline or
Kerosene will give about 10 per cent
more power when operated on alcohol.
provided the necessary notifications
are made. An engine specially built
for alcohol will give from 20 per cent
to 80 per cent more power than is OBJ
tainable from a regular gasoline en-
CINE of the same size. Because of the
increased efficiency obtainable from a
standard size of engine using alcohol,
the cost of production per horsepower
will be less than that of gasoline or
kerosene engines Of the same class.
Another important factor relative to
the use Of alcohol as a fuel is the de
creased fire danger of storage, as com
pared to gasoline (alcohol is misc!bIc
with water in all proportions and it's
flame can be extinguished by water.
while water but spreads a gasoline
blaze), as well as it's greater cleanliness
and more pleasant Odor. The exhaust
from an alcohol engine is not offensive
and to operate al alcohol engine less
skill is required than in the case of a
an alcohol engine will run we'll under
widely varying conditions of fuel mix
ture. That is. with a gasoline engine
the proportion of gasoline vapor to air
must be about n to fifteen in order
to obtain the best economy and power.
while with a. alcohol engine any mix
ture of alcohol vapor n air over a
very wide range will permit the en-
CINE to operate satisfactorily. although.
Of course, if the mixture is yer rich
fuel waste will resuIt-but the power
Of the engine will not be seriously
affected.
Furthermore. the deposit OF carbon
in an alcohol engine. If the proper
grade of iubricating oil be used. is i'm
possible. while gasoline and kerosene
engines cannot be operated without
having the interior parts become
"sooty.' with a resultant loss of power.
Automobile Dealer and Repairer.
Durability Of Wooden Piles.
Unprotected pile tops of white pine
more than eighty years old were found
perfectly sound and good when re-
moved recently from the foundation
of piers 9 and 10, North river. New
York. says Engineering Record. The
tops Of the piles. about six feet long
above the high water level. were as
sound and good as the submerged por-
lions. These piles were located neal
| the center of the pier, where the deck
shielded them from sun and rain. and
were in an open. well ventilated space
not subject to rapid drying out by
direct sunshine. The pier from which
these piles were taken is n of the
oldest that has been removed in New
York, and in it. as in others. it is found
that timber is durable under favorable
conditions. although similar piles in
the exterior rows Of the foundation.
which are subject to more rapid drying
| out BY direct sunshine. are liable to
decay above high water level.
Fast Time In an Electric Roadster.
An electric roadster recently made
a l167 mile run from Philadelphia to
Washington. ID. C.. in eight hours and
forty-seven minutes actual running
time. says the Electrical World. On
the preceding day the same car made
the trip from Atlantic City to l'hila-
delphia in two hours and eleven min
utes. After an all night charge at
Philadelphia the start for Washington
was made at $50 in the morning. The
average speed maintained on the trip
was about nineteen miles IN hour. Ii
was necessary to make three stops on
the road for charging the battery-at
Wilmington and BeIair. DEL. and at
Baltimore. The motorists. after max
ing many detours en- route. arrived
in the capital city that night at 3:l2
o'clock.
The Lowest Temperature.
Science assures VI that there is a
definite limit to the lowest conceivable
temperature, and this may be placed
with considerable accuracy at 459 de-
grees below zero on the Fahrenheit
scale. 1t is held that at all tempera-
lures above this absolute zero" par.
ticles ,of matter. either solid OF gas
eous. are in a state Of vibration, the
more rapid vibrations corresponding to
the greater degree Of heat. All such
vibrations would cease entirely at abb
solute zero and all gases would liquefy.
Removing Carbon.
In cleaning the cylinders OF a gas