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Snake Oil, for your car…
I see 2 or 3 of these a year (cold fusion, super fuel efficiency ect.) and they always fade away… and here’s another one.
http://www.gizmag.com/air-hybrid-vehicles-could-cut-fuel-consumption-in-half/17810/
Air hybrid vehicles could halve fuel consumption
The most commonly used form of regenerative braking is where a vehicle’s electric motor is used as an electric generator to capture the vehicle’s kinetic energy, which is otherwise lost as heat when braking. The generator converts the kinetic energy into electricity that is then fed back into the vehicle’s battery pack where it is stored for later use. New research suggests that pneumatic or air hybrids that instead store the energy as compressed air would be much cheaper to produce than the current crop of EVs and battery-electric hybrids and could halve the fuel consumption of ICE powered vehicles.
Although converting kinetic energy to electricity is the system found in the majority of EV’s and hybrids on our roads, such as the Toyota Prius, there are also systems that allow the kinetic energy to be stored in other forms. Mechanical systems use a flywheel to store it as rotational energy, while hydraulic systems store the energy as pressurized fluid.
Pneumatic systems that store the energy as compressed air are yet another option and it is pneumatic or air hybrid systems that Sasa Trajkovic believes can be used to produce more fuel efficient vehicles. Trajkovic, a doctoral student in Combustion Engines at Lund University in Sweden, did his doctoral thesis on pneumatic hybrid vehicles and he says that compressed air could be used to provide extra power to the engine when starting up and save fuel by avoiding idle operation when the car is at standstill.
For the study the researchers converted heavy duty Scania engines converted to operate as pneumatic hybrid engines. During pneumatic hybrid operation the engine can be used as a 2-stroke compressor for generation of compressed air during vehicle deceleration (compressor mode) and during vehicle acceleration the engine can be operated as an air-motor driven by the previously stored pressurized air (air-motor mode).
The compressed air is stored in a pressure tank connected to one of the inlet ports. One of the engine inlet valves has been modified to work as a tank valve in order to control the pressurized air flow to and from the pressure tank.
The air hybrid engine, which would work with gasoline, natural gas and diesel fuel-powered engines, doesn’t require any expensive materials such as those used in battery packs, so they would be cheaper to manufacture. They would also take up much less space than an electric hybrid engine.
Trajkovic calculated that 48 percent of the brake energy, which is compressed and saved in a small air tank connected to the engine, could be reused later. This matches the degree of reuse of today’s electric hybrids and, like current electric hybrids, Trajkovic says the technology would be even more attractive for slow and jerky driving, like that found on a bus in urban traffic. His simulations showed that buses in cities could reduce their fuel consumption by 60 per cent.
Although pneumatic motors have been around for over a century and there have been some (so far unsuccessful) attempts to bring a compressed air car to the market, the idea of air hybrids has only been around for a couple of decades. With most of the previous research into the technology theoretical, the Lund researchers say theirs is the first time anyone has done experiments on an actual air hybrid engine.
The Lund University researchers studied a single cylinder air hybrid engine but hope to conduct further research into a complete, multi-cylinder engine with the aim of bringing the concept another step closer to a real air hybrid vehicle.
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How R2D2 was made
Could you call R2′s mom a “cum dumpster” and get away with it?
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60 Min. Photoshop Challenge
It’s the Iron Chef of Photoshopin’
I have 1 hour for lunch. Today I figured I could eat, or do a shitty little photoshop. So I PS my lunch away. So them’s the rules I guess… I have 60 minutes, all inclusive, to dream-up, find material and build a lame-ass photoshop.
It’s not an everyday thing but once in a while I’ll bust em out.
Today I had the scene from Star Wars with the space slug stuck in my head…
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I’m going to name it Rongada!
http://gizmodo.com/5651768/this-may-very-well-be-the-first-new-earth
You are looking at what could be the fourth planet on the Gliese 581 star system, 20.3 light years from Earth. If the NASA artist rendition looks very much like our Earth… it’s because it issimilar to Earth.
Gliese 581 is a red dwarf star. A starship traveling at near the speed of light would only take 20.3 years to get there, which is not that much. Until now, astronomers had discovered five planets around this star. Some of them were too close to it, making them too hot to be habitable. Others were too far and too cold. But now, a sixth planet has been discovered right on the “habitable zone”, the fourth in distance from the star: Gliese 581g.
If the discoveries from the planet hunters at University of California Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution of Washington are right, Gliese 581g could be habitable.
Now, before you jump into the Enterprise and go there camping, roast some marshmallows, and get back leaving a lot of beer bottles and crap behind, being potentially habitable doesn’t mean that we can just go there and thrive. It doesn’t even mean that this planet is full of little green men or buxom big blue women. It just means that this is a planet that could sustain life, with liquid water and an atmosphere.
Gliese 581g has three to four times the mass of Earth, orbiting the star at an zippy 37 days. According to data gathered by the Keck I Telescope HIRES spectrometer, it’s a rocky planet with a “solid surface and enough gravity to hold to an atmosphere.”
More importantly, according to Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, not only their “findings offer a very compelling case for a potentially habitable planet” but “the fact that we were able to detect this planet so quickly and so nearby tells us that planets like this must be really common.”
In other words, the chances of the Universe being bubbling with life of all kinds and forms just jumped beyond our most optimistic hopes. [NASA]
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If the Earth Stood Still?
