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race car you're talking about. For example, Nascar engines burn a hundred and ten octane leaded gasoline, Indie cars burn pure methanol also known as wood alcohol, top fuel, dragsters and funny cars burn nitromethane. Each of these fuels has advantages and disadvantages. For example, the methodol fuel used in indie cars has the vantage that it can run at extremely high compression ratios, meaning more power and the engines able to handle turbo charging easily. Methodol also has a
nice safety feature. You could extinguish a methodol fire with water. D ten octane gasoline also handles high compression well. Nitral methane is basically a liquid explosive and contains a great deal of energy per unit volume. It has more than twice the energy is a similar amount of gasoline. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for this podcast? If so, please send me an email at podcast at how stuff works dot com. For more on this and thousands of
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