Reply To: The recent "discovery" of Dark Matter

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Transmute wrote: Well a plastic lined fuel tank and fuel lines then. Plastic are cheap, heck most of those parts area already made of plastic. Look there already making E85 capable trucks and cars for a few hundred dollars above regular models.

Ethanol itself is not all that corrosive. It’s the combustion byproducts you get when you burn the stuff in an internal combustion engine that are the problem. That hasn’t changed any as far as I know. I haven’t seen one of these E85 vehicles in operation and have yet to hear what their engine lifetimes are. I’ll believe they are “E85 capable” AFTER I’ve seen the maintenance records.
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That why I said hybrid for turbines, you can run the turbine at a constant load to charge the batteries, even when you consider the efficiency loss of the generator and the batteries a turbine with a recuperator would still be a more efficient, especially if it