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A New Lease On Internal Combustion

Posted by kdawson on from the more-power-to-ya dept.

Somnus suggests we check out the latest issue of MIT's Technology Review, where researchers describe how they can dramatically boost engine output and efficiency by preventing pre-ignition, or "knock." How they do it: "Both turbocharging and direct injection are preexisting technologies, and neither looks particularly impressive... by combining them, and augmenting them with a novel way to use a small amount of ethanol, Cohn and his colleagues have created a design that they believe could triple the power of a test engine."

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  1. slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    fuck all you know-nothing cunts.

    gnaa.

  2. The Grinch that stole the commons. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "How they do it: "Both turbocharging and direct injection are preexisting technologies, and neither looks particularly impressive... by combining them, and augmenting them with a novel way to use a small amount of ethanol, Cohn and his colleagues have created a design that they believe could triple the power of a test engine.""

    And remember folks, patents are evil. So cross your fingers and hope.

  3. Yet another Jew inflating the Einstein hype by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Huh, Daniel Cohn. Yet another American Jew ridiculing the gentiles and the goyim.
    I guess the same strike of Jew genius drove the US to invade Iraq on the basis of illegal
    arguments and gross overestimations of ones abilities. Keep up the 'good fighting' boys!

  4. Re:Old by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    FUCK OFF CUNT!