Posted on 05/08/2018 1:02:17 PM PDT by zeestephen
Major European cities such as Madrid and Paris are discriminating against diesel engines due to officials’ concerns about the types of pollution oil-burners produce...The four-cylinder EcoBlue is the most advanced diesel engine Ford has ever produced. Starting with a clean sheet, engineers focused on developing an engine that has very low internal friction.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
They are creating compression without friction in TOCOMAK fusion reactors.
“In an engine this is a mechanical process and so friction is unavoidable. “
But reducing the friction leads to efficiency gains.
“Don’t think you can get that with no metal on metal or some friction”
Dude, we put oil in the engines to eliminate that.
Under powered
I don’t care about “eco BS”.
Give me six or more cylinders and acceleration on the other side of “meh” and closer to “yeah!” and I’ll be happy.
What are you driving?
You’re confusing friction with resistance.
You must overcome resistance in order to compress a spring, but the spring doesn’t have friction. (Unless it is being dragged along the ground...)
300lbs of torque out of 2.0 liter motor.
My, we have come a long way.
There are several modern American V8 engines that don’t produce that much power.
“300lbs of torque out of 2.0 liter motor.”
Fed by a 240,000 rpm turbocharger ...
Why do you want to know?
And why do you care what I drive.
It has six cylinders.
That’s all you need to know.
It is illegal to use gas engines underground in a mine. Only diesel is allowed to avoid killing miners. Yet Diesel gets the bad rap for pollution.
Politicians are morons.
Much like the Norwegian Blue Parrot which pines for the fjords. Beautiful plumage eh?
If it ain’t a 2006 5.9 Cummins with compound turbos, FASS titanium fuel system and a custom EFI live tune, ARP studs and girdled scheid diesels fire ringed head with 150hp injectors AFE cold air intake with 875Hp RWHP for my daily driver pickup .....I’ll pass on this “questionable” technology from ford.........
I see what you’re saying, but it’s pretty difficult to have motion without friction unless you have something moving through a vacuum. If you stretch and compress a spring rapidly, it’s going to get hot. The motion gets converted to heat. There’s a lot of heat in an internal combustion engine and all parts are not going to expand and contract at the same rate, so pretty difficult to reduce the friction of all the moving parts by a significant amount. Parts are lubed with oil to reduce friction and remove heat, but the oil itself even creates some friction. Am I missing something?
With Mobile 1 oil, there is almost no friction
I was curious since you posted manpower but included six cylinders ...
Reliability? Sure sounds like a lot of small moving parts are involved
“I don’t care about “eco BS”.
Give me six or more cylinders and acceleration on the other side of “meh” and closer to “yeah!” and I’ll be happy.”
Where do you see “manpower” in there?
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