Elvis Hargrove wrote in a message to Craig Healy:
-> I remember reading in older hot rod magazines that alcohol
-> runs much cooler than gasoline...
 EH> Well, starting out with the right mixture is a big help. You've 
 EH> got to provide some flash evaporation inside the combustion 
 EH> chamber to help keep the hotspots down, or you can get into 
 EH> some pretty serious preignition problems. "Lean burn" aint 
 EH> where it's at with alky as I understand it.
 EH> Besides, I don't understand all this conversion of potential 
 EH> energy that everyone seems to want to get into.  Lessee, we 
 EH> take sunlight and apply it to dirt to produce foodstuff, then 
 EH> apply distillation to that, then internal combust it into 
 EH> rotation, then apply the rotation to generation to make 
 EH> electricity to do.....?
 EH> Every process has some efficiency losses, makes our electricity 
 EH> awfully expensive in raw material terms, don't it?
Yeah.  What we need is to get those genetic engineers to come up with a plant 
that takes sunlight in and puts out electricity.  A natural solar cell,  
perhaps...
email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com 
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