Aquanol - The Future of Fuel

Recently Mark Cherry, an Idaho native, has come up with a concept that had guests at the South Dakota Farmers Union Convention talking about a van that runs completely on aquanol. Yes, this van runs on an ethanol - water mixture and Cherry added, "This is the first over the road vehicle running on catalytic ignition and a 35/65 percent water-ethanol fuel mixture." This is along with the diesel engine that he had modified previously to run on a 50-50 mix of water and diesel.
     Cherry took time to give guests of the convention a ride in the van and answer any questions that may arise about this new mixture. The only issue that was a concern to Cherry was the cold South Dakota weather. The van does better when it is warm, but Cherry stated, "there are no dangers of the water-ethanol mixture freezing since it has a slush point of 100 degrees below zero." 
     The trick to the van is the precision-timed catalytic glow plug, which he calls a "Smart Plug" and he is currently working on several international patents. This "Smart Plug" is currently getting limited us from the military and in aviation. Snowmobile and ATV manufactures are also strongly looking in to the us of this plug in their future models.
     The engines seem to have more torque and horsepower then your typical engines and they run cooler with lower emissions. The van does require a larger tank then your traditional vehicles but with the money saved by purchasing less fuel the larger tank is just a small fraction of the cost.      When asked about cost, he stated that it would run someone anywhere from $2000 to $3000 to overhaul an engine, but once the automotive industry can produce these in mass quantities the cost should cut in half.
     Right now Cherry and Automotive Resources, Inc are just needing some partners in the industry to start working toward getting this into more vehicles then just a van and a diesel engine.