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Lotus developing efficient two-stroke OMNIVORE engine

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by admin

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Lotus Engineering has kept on hard at attempt developing new engine technologies too aide the use of replenish&wshyp;able alcohol fuels. It’s newly drafted Exige 270E Tri-Fuel idea contended overly the British establishment knows how to initiate an engine run on a large number of fuels, combined with gasoline, ethanol and methanol. In fact, the 270E Tri-Fuel idea was the a large amount of powerful Exige repeatedly conceived by the Hethel-based establishment and earned its largest electricity output paying synthetic methanol fuel. Lotus has began a new investigation anticipate dubbed the OMNIVORE engine — cleverly signaling the present it serves to run on everything — this uses a single cylinder investing in direct injection and a variable compression ratio in circumstances to maximize fuel and efficiency additonally running on a large number of alcohol fuels. The even greater octane screen of alcohol fuels ought to let the engine to run among bigger compression, thereby giving a greater amount of power, additonally additionally toning itself downhill to run on lower-grade fuels as well. Read the urge release subsequent to the break for a great deal more details.

Sony creates micro-sized fuel cell system

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 by admin

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Finally we can all sleep at night, safe in the knowledge that Sony has created a prototype fuel cell system that fits in the palm of your hand. The combination lithium-polymer battery, backup battery, and control circuit are destined for future mobile devices. According to a company engineer, “We have been aiming to mount (a fuel-cell system) in mobile devices and finally reached a level of commercial design.” The tiny power-pack uses methanol as a fuel and controls supply with a hybrid pump, which allows it to regulate the amount of power used based on a system’s needs. The company claims that just 10ml of methanol can power a mobile device through 14 hours of 1seg movie watching. Sure, it sounds good on paper, but does this mean soon we’ll have to visit tiny, methanol refilling stations manned by a team of mice in jumpsuits? Probably not.