Posted by mkirsch on May 06, 2008 at 06:57:00 from (64.80.108.52):
In Reply to: E-85, Ethanol posted by gene bender on May 06, 2008 at 03:47:15:
You can't get all-brass needles any more, only the rubber tipped ones.
Don't worry about it, though. If it's rubber-tipped, it's a modern needle with modern rubber that the ethanol won't attack. Only old rubber is susceptible to ethanol.
The problem with ethanol is that unless they can figure out how to make it from industrial waste, it's going to come down to a choice between eating or driving your antique tractor. We can't supply this country's energy needs and feed it at the same time just on farm-based ethanol alone.
If we're to believe in the whole "global warming" concept, we've created our own solution by creating the problem: The more volatile weather can be used to drive wind turbines. The higher levels of UV in the atmosphere can be absorbed by solar cells.
Electricity is the achievable future for anything that's bolted down, and many things that aren't. We already have the technology, it's already refined, and the sky is the limit for how far we can take it.
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