Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
Posted on 03/14/2007 1:31:43 PM PDT by Red Badger
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KnOcK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
KNOCK!........
uh, aren't they doing the same thing people with Nitrous systema are doing?
Of course this just angers the left. After all...its STILL evil oil that is being used. There is no progress unless no oil us used according to them.
Interesting they are using a turbo. You'd think they'd revive the axial flow compressor or a Whipple type screw charger for a cooler intake charge. Turbo's are hell on heat and almost as bad as a roots type blower.
This is very interesting to anyone trying to figure out ways to get better milage, etc. from existing technology. I hope they can keep Al Gore away until it is perfected! :0 )
But nitrous has the distinct advantage of giving the car's occupants a much better boost than ethanol.
Bump for Later
Hybrids are so uncomfortable to commute with that all the Rednecks would have to move back into the cities, and the countryside could heal, and the Liberal, Upper classes could disarm them, since the idea of slinging a deer carcass across the fender of a Prius is just absurd.
Yeah, kinda the same principle.......
As long as they make a rig retro enough to fit on a 350cid Chevy SB... I'm good with it making 3x as much horsepower. ;-)
Can't do that...it'd get in the way of him claiming he invented it.
gee this must be the first time in combustion engine history this has been tried.
Tell you what folks build it . If it works there wont be any trouble selling it. Stop with the theories and computer tests and build one of the damned thing. I bet it blows up inside 10,000 miles if it makes it that far.
Injection (water or alky) has been around for years in both automotive and aircraft applications. I think I've seen some current production cars (Mazda?) that have it.
Also, gasoline seems to be the base fuel of choice with plugs to fire it. Wheres the diesel?????
Every time a Chicken Little has complained to me that all is doomed, I point out that good old technological innovation and (relatively) free markets almost always fix the problem. It drives the socialists mad because they need things to appear to fall apart to sneak in more government regulation, taxation, and control.
Pinging ye olde Diaeresis Coöperative.
A precious "word picture".
Not so. If it performs as predicted, this adaptation will only increase engine efficiency. Reduction of gasoline consumption is not related.
Gasoline consumption is most directly related to supply. All gasoline supply will be consumed regardless of engine efficiencies. The most likely effect of massive world-wide increases of engine efficiency on gasoline would be changes in the price of gasoline as it impacted the oil supply system.
Producers would continue to modify their production levels to obtain the best return. Consumers would continue to modify their consumption levels to fit their finite means. And if prices dropped low enough, more consumers would be added to that particular market.
Changing engine efficiencies does not change the law of supply and demand. It is just a variable in a particular product to consumer formula. Only two things will reduce gasoline consumption; reduction in the level of gasoline supply, and reduction in the means to purchase that gasoline supply.
All that being said, I would love to see massive increases in gasoline engine efficiencies!
Heat is the enemy of gasoline combustion. It explodes prematurely if too hot. Cooling (with ethanol injection) allows higher compression without premature explosion..knock.
Heat is the friend of diesel - the higher the compression ratio (to a point) the higher the power. Its the heat of compression that makes diesel burn! Cooling a diesel charge of fuel and air is counterproductive.
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