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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 17, 2016 19:18:03 GMT -5
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Post by gsx600racer on Jun 17, 2016 19:40:16 GMT -5
They have been around for awhile now, but have not seen or heard them used in any application.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 18, 2016 0:50:39 GMT -5
I can't see any 2T meeting emissions regulations.
I have seen the concept before and I find it interesting.
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Post by iwannascoot on Jun 18, 2016 9:23:46 GMT -5
I can't see any 2T meeting emissions regulations. I have seen the concept before and I find it interesting. 2t outboard motors have found their way back into production. Perhaps the emission laws are easier to meet with boats. Billy |
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Post by moofus02 on Jun 18, 2016 12:22:43 GMT -5
They use some high tech direct injection I believe. They run strong
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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 18, 2016 19:55:16 GMT -5
Check the video, they seemed to be showing 3 carbs with pod filters.
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Post by aeroxbud on Jun 19, 2016 15:48:43 GMT -5
Was reading a test this week in a motorcycle mag of the new KTM's. They still have a two stroke line up and they were hinting that even next year for Euro 4 emissions they will be fine, and they have something in the works! Direct injection perhaps?
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Post by ams417 on Jun 19, 2016 17:43:37 GMT -5
Its still a piston engine. Different but the same. We need to look beyond piston technology. Back in the 60's Chrysler was putting turbines into cars for testing. The transmission technology wasn't there. Plus people worried about a crash with the turbine running 30k plus RPM. I am really excited with what Tesla is doing. Serious electric performance. We just need to continue to advance energy production alongside the battery technology. Saw an article on flexible solar roofing materials recently. Could be a big deal in 5 years or so. Cutting edge is expensive. Someone had to be first before we all can afford it.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 19, 2016 21:27:07 GMT -5
Correct on the piston engine... Electric cars are OK but they still pollute, they just shift the site of the pollution. However, -they just made a breakthrough with zinc-manganese oxide batteries. Throw those nasty Lithium batteries away, -uh no, recycle them. It seems people ASSUMED wrong about the Zinc Manganese battery chemistry. ASSuME as usual... A teaser and the link: PNNL's improved aqueous zinc-manganese oxide battery offers a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative for storing renewable energy and supporting the power grid. Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160418145631.htmAn unexpected discovery has led to a rechargeable battery that's as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy density. The new battery could become a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternative for storing renewable energy and supporting the power grid. A team based at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory identified this energy storage gem after realizing the new battery works in a different way than they had assumed. The journal Nature Energy published a paper today that describes the battery. "The idea of a rechargeable zinc-manganese battery isn't new; researchers have been studying them as an inexpensive, safe alternative to lithium-ion batteries since the late 1990s," said PNNL Laboratory Fellow Jun Liu, the paper's corresponding author. "But these batteries usually stop working after just a few charges. Our research suggests these failures could have occurred because we failed to control chemical equilibrium in rechargeable zinc-manganese energy storage systems." -snip- |
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Post by niz76 on Jun 19, 2016 23:05:22 GMT -5
Let's get a little weird shall we?? If mankind really wants to make positive headway in the areas of energy/propulsion we should take a nod from the late great Viktor Schauberger's way of thinking and study nature's way more closely. Somewhere along the line humans took a wrong turn at Albuquerque and focused our energy productions on the destructive power of explosions (think internal combustion engine for example ). Nature does not operate this way and thus we are doing exponential harm to the earth and environment by staying down this path. I fully believe that mankind will eventually need to take Viktor's lead and look to nature and how it works and to totally change our way of thinking. The real power will be unleashed when man can harness non-destructive powers such as implosions. Shoot, a Pistol Crab can produce energy hotter than the surface of the sun utilizing implosions. Now that's impressive power! I fully blame J.P. Morgan for the fact that we're not all driving flying electric cars powered by a free energy grid (He shut down Tesla's funding when he realized he couldn't profit from Tesla's free energy project). Capitalism and greed have set technology back at least 100 years. Not much has changed really. What do you think would happen if you successfully invented a free energy technology that stood to rip apart America's economy?? Exactly! D@mn you J.P. Morgan- I want my flying car!! WARNING; EXTREME WEIRDNESS AHEAD! Want to get really really weird and blow your mind?? Look up another amazing Viktor- Viktor Grebennikov. If you believe his reports (and many do) we could all be utilizing the anti-gravity properties found in nature's beetles and simply fly our scooters everywhere. He says he built a simple wooden box with crude handlebars and steering device and used beetle carcasses glued to it to effortlessy fly through the air (trust me, his claims get even a lot weirder than that!). Disappointingly, Grebenenikov was a diehard entomologist and never would divulge the species of beetle for fear of it's demise. Some folks theorize that the Ancient Egyptians knew exactly which beetles possessed these anti-gravity properties...  Sorry guys didn't mean to get so weird on ya there- I warned ya! lol. Now, back to figuring out how to make my scoot fly within my budget and available technology...  |
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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 20, 2016 0:06:19 GMT -5
To make your scoot really fly, -harness the power of natural digestion for rocket propulsion...
Think about graboids and assblasters.
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Post by FrankenMech on Jun 21, 2016 18:01:13 GMT -5
I had a 90 Isuzu Trooper with a blown engine (factory defect in cyl #4) that I considered making into a hybrid electric. I thought about using a 3-phase motor and a variable speed controller but regenerative braking to charge the batteries was lost. It was also expensive. I also considered a DC PM motor with a home-brew controller but that also gets expensive. Using lead acid batteries and a small gas motor driven generator for power. It was all expensive and complicated. In regards to alternative power sources. I see some of the greenies in CA have decided nuke plants are not all bad. www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2016/06/21/amid-anti-nuke-attack-enviros-plan-march-to-save-our-biggest-source-of-zero-carbon-power/#447c9b22c183When they build proper power storage systems at solar and wind power facilities then maybe those technologies will be helpful. As it is those renewables require the utilities to use natural gas peaking generators to smooth out the power on the grid which produces more carbon. They also need to use vertical axis windmills instead of those horrible horizontal axis units. |
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Post by benji on Jun 21, 2017 20:14:28 GMT -5
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