Fuel-injection System That Delivers 64 Miles Per Gallon

Mar 10th

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The best hybrid cars of today can only deliver about 48 miles per gallon. By using this newly developed fuel injection system a test vehicle was measured at achieving 64 miles per gallon in highway driving. This is approximately a 50% increase in fuel efficiency in a gasoline engine.

…The fuel injection system was developed by a startup company Transonic Combustion and their goal is to increase fuel efficiency of existing gasoline engines. The cost for this ultra-efficient system would be as much as high-end fuel injection systems currently on the market today.
By heating and pressurizing gasoline before injecting it into the combustion chamber places it into a supercritical state that allows for very fast and clean combustion. This in turn decreases the amount of fuel needed to run the vehicle. The gasoline is also treated with a catalyst to further enhance combustion.
What makes Transonic’s fuel injection system different from a direct injection is that it uses supercritical fluids and requires no spark to ignite the fuel. The supercritical fluid is mixed with air before injected into the cylinder. The heat and pressure, in the cylinder, alone is enough to cause the fuel to combust without a spark.
Ignition timing happens just when the piston reaches the optimal point, so that the…

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Unboxing the fake Intel Core i7 that NewEgg was shipping

Mar 10th

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By now, you’ve probably seen many of the homemade videos from people who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. We have one in the office.

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How big is the Facebook economy?

Mar 10th

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Investors are pumping more and more money into web services that are heavily reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world’s most popular social network?

…venture capitalists and investment funds putting money into companies that are building web services.But there’s something else going on here. From the swathes of press releases and funding announcements I trawl through each day, it feels to me like we’re hearing much more recently about sites specifically and publicly built using Facebook as a platform. In many cases, they are almost entirely reliant on Facebook to provide their link to users.Now, in part, that’s no surprise: building up an ecosystem around Facebook is something that the company has tried very hard to do with F8 and Facebook Connect - and it’s a smart move, because they know that when lots of people are invested in your success, you are less vulnerable to competitors.But if so many people are pumping into companies that are almost entirely reliant on the world’s largest social networking site, exactly how big is the economy around Facebook? Let’s see if we can work it out.We know from a number of reports and internal estimates that Facebook…

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I posed as a girl of 14 on Facebook.What followed will sickn

Mar 10th

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Within 90 seconds of posing as a 14-year-old girl on Facebook, a middle-aged man wanted to perform a sex act in front of me.

…they look no different to you or me.
The Government must provide police forces throughout Britain with the
resources for covert policing, so they can lure men with fake teenage
profiles before they ruin the lives of real children
They hold down jobs and are able to perpetrate abuse by hiding behind the internet for anonymity.
I know, because I have met some of the most dangerous sex offenders in the country in prisons.
The problem is that they can be caught far too late - like 33-year-old serial rapist and killer Peter Chapman.
What happened to Ashleigh Hall is desperately sad, but not surprising, given the proliferation of paedophiles online and the fact that 25 per cent of girls and 14 per cent of boys who make contact with someone online will go on to meet them in person.
That is why the policing of social networking sites must be changed radically.
I have followed a Metropolitan police paedophile unit that uses a covert approach to ensnare online abusers and arrest them.
It was incredibly…

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Real-life Hurt Locker: How Bomb-Proof suits work

Mar 10th

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A fascinating look at how bomb-proof suits actually work

…”You see that the technician gets knocked down well before the debris hits him,” says Borkar. “But how is he killed? That’s power of the overpressure wave: because he was relatively close to the device when it exploded, the pulse has probably punctured or collapsed his lungs.”

How the Suit Keeps You Alive
The EOD suit’s rigid outer armor layer, the first and most important defense against this threat, is composed mainly of aramids: high-tech synthetic materials that are “strain-rate sensitive.” In other words, “the faster something hits them, the harder they become,” says Borkar. (Kevlar is simply the brand name of an aramid manufactured by DuPont.) The entire front-facing portion of the suit is reinforced from head to toe with hardened composites of two or more aramids, optimized for strength and lightness. This rigid layer can literally reflect or bounce some of the overpressure energy away from the technician, while also repelling flying fragmentation.

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Corey Haim Found Dead

Mar 10th

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Actor Corey Haim died this morning of an apparent overdose, according to LAPD. He was 38. Haim shot to fame in the 80s — when he co-starred in a number of …

…Reeves5. So sadPosted at 8:23AM on Mar 10th 2010 by Stef6. The Two Coreys are no more.Posted at 8:23AM on Mar 10th 2010 by Mikey7. Jesus another one.Posted at 8:23AM on Mar 10th 2010 by dirty diana8. Being friends with Corey Feldman appears to be bad luck. First MJ and now the other Corey.Posted at 8:24AM on Mar 10th 2010 by Mikey9. OH WOW…now there is only one Corey. Lets hope he doesn’t do something stupid too.. Very sad. R.I.P. I just don’t get it. I am under a lot of stress, and bull, and everyday on the verge of homelessness,without the opportunately that this guy had. Very sad it was all pissed away.. Again R.I.P. Corey…Crap, now I have to tell my daughters,and they ain’t gonna like it..:(Posted at 8:27AM on Mar 10th 2010 by KATHY…

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Top 10 Cars That Should Be in U.S. Showrooms, but Aren’t

Mar 10th

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The great thing about the Geneva Motor Show is that it provides the perfect venue to witness all of the incredible metal that doesn’t normally find its way to our shores. Naturally, though, it’s a double-edged sword - once you see it, you want it. And you can’t have it. Here are the top 10.

…gets a healthy dose of Gordini livery. That white-on-blue paint scheme has carried many a Renault to victory in motorsports over the decades, and it looks as if that trend will continue. Renault will also let buyers opt for a Cup chassis, which includes tweaks to the suspension and brakes to make the car sharper all around. Either way, you get a completely reworked interior with hot black-and-blue leather seats and a sport steering wheel. Cars That Should Be in U.S. Showrooms, but Aren’tVW Polo GTIHands down one of the most frustrating “can’t haves” of this year’s Geneva Motor Show is the new Volkswagen Polo GTI. This is what would happen if you accidently shrank your Golf in the dryer and then tried to restore it using steroids. The Polo is 300 pounds lighter than the standard Golf, but packs around 178 horsepower from a turbocharged and supercharged 1.4-liter 4-cylinder engine. There’s also a staggering 184 lb-ft of torque on hand to help scoot the little hatchback up hills and around lumbering semis. If…

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Life ban for Younus Khan, Mohammad Yousuf

Mar 10th

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The Pakistan Cricket Board has banned former captains Mohd Yousuf and Younus Khan for life, besides imposing a 1-year ban on Shoaib Malik in the wake of the team’s disastrous tour of Australia.

…In an unprecedented crackdown on indiscipline, the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday indefinitely barred its former captains Younus Khan and Mohammad Yousuf from playing for the country and imposed one-year bans on Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan in the wake of the team’s disastrous tour of Australia. The PCB also put the Akmal brothers — Kamran and Umar — and Shahid Afridi on probation for six months besides imposing fines between Rs 2-3 million for indiscipline on the tour after implementing the recommendations of an inquiry committee formed to evaluate Pakistan’s dismal performance.PCB’s tough stand virtually puts an end to the international careers of Younus (32) and Yousuf (35) — two of the country’s most accomplished batsmen in the middle order –and is bound to bring about wholesale changes in the team.Pakistan were whitewashed in all the three formats of the game in Australia during the recent tour in December-January, following which PCB had set up a six-member inquiry committee headed by…

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Obama Sabotages Himself With Pseudo-"Pragmatism"

Mar 10th

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A new Democratic poll claims Democrats are losing the Terrorism/civil liberties debate to Dick Cheney.

…Bush’s policies came to seem less obviously reprehensible as the Obama administration drifted into embracing watered-down versions of many of them. Guantanamo hasn’t been closed. No Child Left Behind is being revised and perhaps improved, but not repealed. The banks are still engaging in their bad practices. Partisanship is worse than ever. Obama seems about to back away from the decision to try 9/11 defendants in civilian courts, a prospect that led the ACLU to run an ad in Sunday’s Times with the subheading Change or more of the same? Above that question is a series of photographs that shows Obama morphing into guess who — yes, that’s right, George W….

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Gay Porn Actor Dies on Camera After Being Tased By Police

Mar 10th

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Police arrested Andrew Grande (porn name Dustin Michaels) with a bag of weed in his possession, which he apparently tried to swallow. When he resisted arrest, they tased him, and he choked on the bag.

…Police arrested Andrew Grande (porn name Dustin Michaels) with a bag of weed in his possession, which he apparently tried to swallow. When he resisted arrest, they tased him, and he choked on the bag. A reality cameraman filmed it.
This long, difficult-to-watch clip from a Panama City Beach, FL news report shows the 23-year-old’s struggle and eventual death. By itself, the pot would have warranted misdemeanor possession.

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