• Cars

    The Race to 1,000 MPH

    By Mike Spinelli Posted on 9.24.2009 26 Comments

    The sun doesn’t rise over the Black Rock Desert in Nevada; it ignites. One minute the blaze-orange glow of dawn is cascading down the sulfur-rich Jackson and Kamma mountain ranges, tinting the prehistoric lakebed a million shades of pink. The next, it’s full celestial throttle. By 6:30, the sun is blinding and the heat is ratcheting up.

    9.19.2009 at 08:06pm - Comment by Twin Turbine

    Years ago man thought if you exceded 65mph your head would blow up. Thank goodness someone proved them wrong. I could only dream that i could be apart of one of these teams. May you have success!

  • Science

    Steam Under the Hood

    By Posted on 5.13.2008 14 Comments

    The Cyclone Cost to Develop: $2 million Time: 8 yearsPrototype | | | | | Product As long as the internal combustion engine has been around, garage tinkerers have been trying—in vain—to best it. But Florida boat engineer Harry Schoell, a lifelong inventor with a portfolio of patents, thinks hes got the answer, in the form of a reinvented steam engine.

    5.25.2008 at 07:29am - Comment by Twin Turbine

    Harry is on to something here, we've know for years the power of steam and even superheated stream that is used industrialy. In the last decade we have seen leaps and bounds in engine technology, metal technology, and metallurgist, have made great strides in new materials. I think Harry's engine is a display of the technology. Yes the video was poor and yes Harry was vague in his discription of the engine. However, if you invented this seemingly new hi-tech steam engine, and in explaining it, trying not to give away patented ideas of it's running condition, and explaining it's running theory to people that only know and are exposed to old principles and theory then you to would limit the information given about your product as well.



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