Charlotte County Man Claims to Get 463 MPG with Car Running on Fuel Vapors
Have your every drove your car on “fumes”? They’re gas vapors that form when it evaporates. One man, John Weston, from Charlottle County, FL, has found these fumes useful and made a fueling system out of them so his car gets an incredible mileage: 463 miles per gallon! In European measurements (if I’m correct) this is 0.8L/100km!!! Wow! Not even VW’s latest gadget car can’t get this mileage!
Revetec Controlled Combustion Engine: 50% less fuel, 100% power
A better combustion engine is the one recently patented by Revetec, a small company from Australia. Their engine has been tested by independent parties. It has the same power as an ordinary engine, but it consumes half the fuel and it weights 50% less. It’s also smaller than the average car engine.
Pratt & Whitney`s Geared Jet Engine Turbo-Fan to Burn 15% Less Fuel
One of the biggest names in aviation, Pratt & Whitney, spent almost twenty years developing the geared turbofan engine that burns 12 to 15% less fuel than other jet engines. The new turbofan engine also cuts carbon dioxide emissions by 1,500 tons/plane yearly.
Mazda Hydrogen Car - to be Tested on Japan’s Roads
Mazda is in the process of testing a car that runs on both hydrogen and gasoline (it’s a dual fuel system). They’re allowed to test the car on the public roads from Japan.
Turbine Engine: a Different, 30% More Efficient Way to Move Trucks
The following is an excerpt from tt engines, a company who made a truck engine that does not have any pistons, valves, or any other elements from the conventional Otto engine. It works with 30% more efficiency, and exhausts less dangerous elements for our health and the environment. It can burn anything, from gasoline to [...]
MUSIC - A new, green, more efficient petrol engine
A simple redesign of the petrol engine could greatly increase its efficiency when idling or driving at low speeds, as well as reduce the harmful emissions it produces. UK researchers say the new design could even make petrol engines as efficient as diesel ones.
In most petrol engines, fuel is ignited by spark plugs inside cylinders [...]
Gasoline And Steam Engine Reloaded
Bruce Crower’s engine is an innovation derived from a standard 4-stroke engine. It uses 6 strokes - the 4 normal ones, and at the end of the 4th it introduces the 5th and the 6th:
- it squirts water on the 1500 °F hot cylinder, creating a steam volume 1600 times greater than the volume of [...]
