New OCN Jet Engine Sips 25% Less Fuel and Outputs 75% Less Greenhouse Gases
An Israeli firm called R-Jet Engineering has designed a new jet engine that could lower the fuel consumption by 25%. Just like current jet engines are twice as efficient compared to those built in the 1960s, this one, if applied on commercial airplanes, could offer significant savings in fuel and greenhouse gases.
How Small Engine Turbo Improves Fuel Economy
Typically, even a low-boost small engine turbo can deliver 25% more power than its non-boosted sister.
That means that even a tiny turbocharged i3 can...
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.
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Light Hybrid Vehicles May be The Next Best Thing
To reduce emissions and increase fuel economy, hybrid vehicles are a pretty good option that aren't nearly as expensive as pure electric vehicles.
In the...
New Waissi Engine Simpler and More Efficient, Arizona State University
The Waissi Engine is of an opposed-piston design, much like that being developed by Achates Power or EcoMotors, with one important difference: Waissi's engine...
Student-Made 2098 mpg Car Won the SAE Supermileage Competition
2098 mpg is the mileage achieved by the Quebec's Laval University team, which won the SAE Supermileage competition, this year.
Living in an age of impending climate...
OPOC: The Two-Stroke Engine Revived by Michigan Company Is Cleaner and More Efficient
EcoMotors, a Troy, Michigan startup company revitalizes the two-stroke engine, making it 50 percent more efficient than currently-used four-stroke engines and less polluting. Even Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures invested a total of $23.5 million in them.
Achates Power’s Diesel Engine Could be Twice as Efficient
The Achates Power engine could be twice as efficient than today's best engines, and could be used for the Army.
A few months ago, we discussed...
General Motors’ 100 mpg Car – The Platinum Anniversary That Could Have Been
In 1992, I built my first PC, the same year Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Works hit the market. Bill Clinton became President of the...
Ford Developing Laser Powered Spark Plug for Future Engines
The auto industry is pursuing various ways to implement more effective fuel saving strategies. Some of them are based on the development of new technology, electric motors, batteries, etc and others are just improving classic petrol-fueled engines to run better. Following the second trend, engineers from The University of Liverpool, UK, in collaboration with Ford and UK-based GSI Group developed a prototype engine ignition based on lasers rather than on spark plugs.
