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Gold/Mining/Energy : Arconenergy, Inc. (Long Term Investors and Fundamentals)
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To: Redfisherman who wrote (866)4/18/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: Kurt N  Read Replies (1) of 1757
 
Making ethanol is a well known process, and with the right equipment almost anybody can make it (even though it is only LEGAL to do so for industrial purposes).

If Arcon were merely an ethanol making company, I'd be wanting some 100% pure ethanol (before stuff gets added, that makes it unsuitable/unsafe for human drinking) solely for medicinal purposes mind you. :-)

They could probably buy the ethanol, although it's probably cheaper for them to make it and I like the idea of a black-box that produces DF-144. The key is the post-processing that Arcon does to ethanol to produce the resulting DF-144 AND the blending process of regular gasoline and DF-144.

Organic chemistry is fairly complex. The gasoline that they produce could be analyzed against the gasoline after the blending process is finished and (assuming you were very good) you could identify the dozen or so reactions to perform to your gasoline, but it would be cost prohibitive.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that (as concisely as possible):

x = final gasoline (with DF-144 blended in)
g = gasoline produced by refinery
d = DF-144
b = blending process

x = b(g,d) [final gasoline is a function of the blending process]. You can solve for d if you know x,g,b (but b is unknown).

x = r(g). [r is the reaction that you perorm on the gasoline]. This is solvable, since you know x and g. The problem is that you have to perform all of the reaction on a large amount of g.

Kurt
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