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1. E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Robert J. Denton Images" <foxriverkid@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 05:24:29 -0400 (GMT-04:00); Now I'm curious. Does it burn hotter than gasoline? Does it burn without visible flames. I guess what I'm asking is, is it safer or less safe, than gasoline? If it is cheaper to make than gasoline, w; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00133.html (9,177 bytes)
2. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Sparky <wmtsmith@landracing.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 9:17:15 -0500; by putting 15% gas in it--that solves several major problems of etholol--hard starting in the winter--you can't drink it, and it burns a pretty light yellow in an open flame that can be easily seen..; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00134.html (7,886 bytes)
3. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:31:16 -0700; High octane rating is interesting.........we don't talk much anymore about compression ratios. But I seem to remember many years ago when suffering through a thermodynamics course a mention about bet; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00135.html (9,117 bytes)
4. RE: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Adin, David" <DavidAdin@mercydurango.org>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:42:21 -0600; Thanks to all for the interesting "food for thought" - it may not be a magic fix but there is some hope after all the hot rodders waste all the worlds resources . . . . (its a joke). Cheers! David in; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00136.html (8,199 bytes)
5. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Benn" <karhu@california.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:29:13 -0700; My $0.02, in two parts: $0.01: Ethanol as currently produced for general fuel use (and this would basically apply to the E85 also) on average takes the same amount of energy to make a gallon of the s; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00137.html (10,138 bytes)
6. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: James Tone <gmc6power@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:28:26 -0700 (GMT-07:00); Since it takes 100% more volumn of methanol over gasoline in my race engine, at least it did for me, I can't see how only adding 15% gasoline will will only require only 15-20% volumn. Seems to me th; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00138.html (8,267 bytes)
7. RE: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 12:51:55 -0400; Turbos affect air density.. The pressures are not as great as you might imagine. All those calculators that say you have an effective compression ratio for a certain amount of boost are horse droppin; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00140.html (9,580 bytes)
8. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:31:53 -0700; Yeah, I was a featherfoot when I wasn't into vaporizing Ford transmissions and axles with my Chrysler hemis. (Actually I never owned a smllblock in those years. ) Here's a some mileage examples-- 1.; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00141.html (10,075 bytes)
9. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:16:37 -0400; The problem with ethanol is we don't have enough farm land to grow food and fuel . Bio diesel may be a better answer . John Burk joyseydevil@comcast.net; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00143.html (7,356 bytes)
10. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:10:50 -0700; One reason it's expensive is ADM needs the money and it takes a lot of coal to run the still. (or natural gas); /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00145.html (8,808 bytes)
11. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:43:10 -0700; Benn is right on target Ed. We have E85 because the "farmer" (think Archer Daniels Midland) makes a bunch of money from it. If you have a Rain Forrest to burn distilling the stuff (Brazil) it is che; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00146.html (10,288 bytes)
12. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Rich Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 14:25:32 -0700; One thing we do have is coal. Most of these alternate fuels are merely a way to turn coal into something that can be used in cars. You could burn coal, generate electricity, use that to make Hydrogen; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00147.html (9,626 bytes)
13. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Rich Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:16:17 -0700; I don't rremember the name of the thing. But my point is that what ever we use it needs to be transportable in the same way that gasoline is. Electric cars are great, but it's ackward to fill up on t; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00153.html (9,488 bytes)
14. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:51:13 -0700 (PDT); I understand that deisel locomotives are actually hybrid electric. the diesel engines only run a generator which runs an electric motor which, in turn, powers the locomotive. Maybe some new breakthro; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00154.html (9,422 bytes)
15. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:17:33 -0600; A student team from BYU is drag racing an EV1. They're into good time for a Corvette in the quarter mile. No batteries on board but two banks of capacitors and a two speed transmission. They have eno; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00159.html (9,999 bytes)
16. RE: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Jim Webb <jimwebb@nutsracing.com>; Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:51:59 -0500; It is true that modern locomotives burn diesel to turn a generator to make electric poser to turn the wheels, but I met some guys at a trade show that are selling 'real' hybrid locomotives. These ma; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00160.html (9,764 bytes)
17. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:36:08 -0700; Wow!! Never realized such a thing would be possible with capacitors. I'm not sure this is the answer to the long tow up Donner Pass or the Grapevine; but sure is interesting. Did you bring this up ju; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00163.html (9,018 bytes)
18. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:36:36 -0700; Real hard to beat these hydrocarbon liquids on an energy per pound basis. We keep hoping for "the magic energy bullet". Maybe it's out there at the end of some long R&D trail. But why? Are we so hop; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00164.html (9,302 bytes)
19. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Askotto@aol.com; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 23:52:24 EDT; Computers will save us! We presently buy a lot of stuff on-line. Even groceries can be bought on-line now. Computers are reducing the amount of travel we need to do. I can see where a lot of present; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00166.html (8,820 bytes)
20. Re: E85, more questions (score: 1): Author: Wester Potter <wester6935@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:00:22 -0600; No worries for Dan. They are finished at the end of the quarter on two banks and additional banks still don't make it to the 2 mile trap under power. VERY big problems that are not practical when you; /html/land-speed/2006-06/msg00167.html (10,437 bytes)

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