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ServiceSoon said:
That is because you aren't running the correct air-fuel ratio for that blend of fuel. You will have to add more fuel and then you will be able to add timing. Doing so will result in more torque and since E85 is less expensive this will almost make up for decreased fuel mileage. Besides, it beats running 110 octane gasoline, which is incidentally around the same octane rating as E85.
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The part you quoted should tell you well enough that Ive already gone from rich to lean. I also have both a tailsniffer and a runtime, header mounted A/F meter. Also Im not talking about E85, Im talking about 80-90% gasoline with 10-20% gas-o-hol.

As stated elsewhere E85 runs fine for me. The az blend of around 15% gas-o-hol does not. Adding enough fuel to keep from pinging, at the lowest possible advance, fouls the spark plugs
 
Diagoras said:
While there's certainly a place for things like solar and wind to supplement the electricity grid, it seems that if we really want to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels (which I believe is imperative for our planet), then our future is going to have to be a nuclear one.
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Environmental concerns are one thing, reducing our dependence on the Middle-East for oil would provide major strategic, political and economic benefits.
 
Hmm, Electric cars might finally be reality (at least since people now whine that they'll be powered by electricity from dirty coal plants and overloading the power grid) and gasoline is back to $4/gallon, give or take some fluctuation, causing you to pay $4 for at most 10kWh of effective energy at the wheels, which comes to 40 cents per kWh.

Right now baseline solar is about 22 cents per kWh.
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/...us-cost-reductions-make-solar-pv-competitive/

I'm ready for my Nobel Prize now. Thankyouverymuch.
 
Anti_Hypeman said:
It will happen slowly if at all. You will see solar powered cell phones and lawn mowers long before houses. The sun cant meet the energy needs of my PDA so how can I expect it to power my house anytime soon.

Why do people expect soloar power to instatnly make the leap from calculators to cars and houses? Thats usually not how things happen the technology has to develope you cant just force it.
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you missed some years of developement it seems.
 
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