about 2 hours ago -
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…
about 3 hours ago -
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…
about 4 hours ago -
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.
But the overpressure wave inevitably passes…
about 4 hours ago -
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…
about 4 hours ago -
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…
about 5 hours ago -
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….
about 5 hours ago -
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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about 7 hours ago -
The CEO of Lifelock, Todd Davis, became famous for advertising his Social Security number on television ads and banners painted on trucks promising his $10 monthly service would protect consumers from identity theft.
…1 In Identity Theft Protection, engaged in false advertising by promising customers that if they signed up with its service their personal information would become useless to thieves.
In truth, the protection they provided left such a large hole that you could drive that truck through it, said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz, referring to a Lifelock TV ad showing a truck painted with the CEO’s Social Security number driving around city streets.
The company, he said, used scare tactics to convince potential customers they would be unprotected from identity theft without its service, and of warning them in letters that they were at a high risk of identity theft.
I was a recipient of one letter, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said.
For the annual subscription fee, Lifelock promised customers that it would place fraud alerts on their credit accounts with the three credit reporting agencies. As a result, the company said, thieves would not be able to open unauthorized credit or bank accounts in their…
about 7 hours ago -
In Sunday’s Michigan State win over Michigan 64-48, the half-time show had most howling as a group of blind-folded students ‘crawled for cash’.
…Dr. Dime
In Sunday’s Michigan State win over Michigan 64-48, the half-time show had most howling and a few others disgusted by the concept. Personally, I think it was absolutely hilarious and it reminded me of a similar ‘pub game’ from my College days. Although what the Michigan State fans were doing was much cleaner (and safer) than crawling around on a pub floor. The game was ‘Crawl for Cash’ where a select group of Michigan State fans were blindfolded and placed on the basketball court where they were left to their own devices to find the strategically placed bags of money before their fellow Spartans claimed the prizes….
about 7 hours ago -
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