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Transonic Supercritical Fuel Injection Could Improve Gasoline Engines by 50-75 Percent
Next Big Future ^ | Mar 3, 2010 | Brian Wang

Posted on 03/04/2010 3:48:04 PM PST by decimon

Transonic Combustion, based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a gasoline fuel injection system that can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 50 to 75 percent, beating the fuel economy of hybrid vehicles. A test vehicle the size and weight of a Toyota Prius (but without hybrid propulsion) showed 64 miles per gallon for highway driving. The company says the system can work with existing engines, and costs about as much as existing high-end fuel injection.

(Excerpt) Read more at nextbigfuture.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: california; fueleconomy; fuelinjection; gasmileage; hybrid; michigan
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1 posted on 03/04/2010 3:48:05 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

BS BS BS BS. repeat 1000 times


2 posted on 03/04/2010 3:49:43 PM PST by chooseascreennamepat
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To: decimon

“Supercritical” sounds like a synonym for cranky.


3 posted on 03/04/2010 3:50:04 PM PST by DManA
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To: chooseascreennamepat

My car runs on water 100mpg.


4 posted on 03/04/2010 3:50:26 PM PST by omega4179 (jdforsenate.com hunt some rinos 2010)
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To: decimon

Fascinating. BTT.


5 posted on 03/04/2010 3:51:35 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: decimon

So! If we combine the two technologies (hybrid and transonic fuel injection) the car will get 100 mpg.


6 posted on 03/04/2010 3:52:57 PM PST by reg45
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To: chooseascreennamepat

I know, I smell snake oil.

But the idea of an ultrasonic transducer carb. makes sense to me. Have thought about that one for years. But even with a super design it is very doubtful it would be that efficient.


7 posted on 03/04/2010 3:53:56 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: decimon

I have one on the shelf next to the super-carb I bought at in the 1950’s at an estate sale for a GM exec.


8 posted on 03/04/2010 3:55:17 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Texas Fossil

Still remember the “100 mpg carburator” the auto companies were supposed to have buried years ago.


9 posted on 03/04/2010 3:55:25 PM PST by JayVee (Joseph)
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To: decimon

It appears to be s system for putting the fuel near the spark at the time of firing. sounds promising.


10 posted on 03/04/2010 3:58:28 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: decimon
Transonic Combustion, based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a gasoline fuel injection system that can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 50 to 75 percent...

And if they put some of those tornado thingies in the intake, they can get like 100% or more!

11 posted on 03/04/2010 3:59:24 PM PST by Onelifetogive (Flame away...)
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To: decimon
that can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 50 to 75 percent, beating the fuel economy of hybrid vehicles.

Do we actually trust auto news from someone who does not know that a hybrid has a gasoline engine?

12 posted on 03/04/2010 4:01:01 PM PST by Onelifetogive (Flame away...)
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To: decimon
TSCi Fuel Injection achieves lean combustion and super efficiency by running gasoline, diesel, and advanced bio-renewable fuels on modern diesel engine architectures

I read this as they're running gasoline in a diesel engine, but maybe I misunderstand.
13 posted on 03/04/2010 4:04:04 PM PST by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: decimon

Impossible.

This scheme’s only intent is to extract money from morons (read: Congressmen) who don’t have the faintest idea of Physics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Engine Cycles, Carnot Cycles, etc.


14 posted on 03/04/2010 4:04:49 PM PST by HighWheeler
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To: decimon

Physics probably controls the fuel air mixture which is a constant for combustion as I understand it. No amount of buzzwords can change physics.

PS I will willingly retract my statement in relation to the discovery if it proves viable.


15 posted on 03/04/2010 4:04:51 PM PST by wita
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To: chooseascreennamepat

A while back I new a guy who took an old ford pickup and replacing the air filter, rigged up some kind of a gas drip thing where the motor ran just on fumes. He had it going and doing like 60mpg. A few days later I got a phone call asking me to pick him up. It blew the hood off the truck and caught his pants on fire. I don’t think I stopped laughing for two days.


16 posted on 03/04/2010 4:04:57 PM PST by Track9 (Oh never mind)
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To: decimon

A 50 or 75 percent improvement would probably put a gas engine beyond its theoretical max efficiency.


17 posted on 03/04/2010 4:06:25 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Maybe the old spark plugs job not finished after all.


18 posted on 03/04/2010 4:21:51 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: chooseascreennamepat

Have you looked at the website. Patents and pictures explain it all.


19 posted on 03/04/2010 4:23:17 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: decimon

I think what they are doing is making the fuel explode instead of burn. In a normal IC engine the fuel burns. If it explodes, or detonates, it produces the pinging sound and can destroy the engine.


20 posted on 03/04/2010 4:45:19 PM PST by kik5150
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