"Jay Maynard" > wrote in message
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> On 2005-01-30, Bill the second > wrote:
>> I'm waiting for a hybrid that burns an renewable fuel (that's actually
>> renewable, not one that takes more energy to refine than it contains)
>
> I'm trying to figure out how you can have such a thing and not violate the
> second law of thermodynamics. Then again, I don't claim to be a chemist or
> physicist.

I don't mean a perpetual motion machine.

More energy is put into processing alcohol than is avalible in the end
product for use in an automobile. I'm not counting energy the original plant
captured.