FPEG Two Stroke Future Shock

Toyota has developed a high-tech, two-cylinder, internal combustion engine to keep an electric car charged.

It’s effective because it never has to turn a crankshaft or any other shaft or gear just about. Its piston  goes up and down merely to provide AC electricity to charge a battery.

The engine is two feet long and measures 8 inches round. Road and Track says it could generate 15 hp which would be enough to keep a compact electric vehicle rolling at highway speed even if the main drive battery gets depleted, according to Road and Track.

Toyota says its simple engine  — which it calls the Free Piston Engine Linear Generator (FPEG) — achieves a remarkable thermal-efficiency rating of 42 percent in continuous use.

Below is a visualization:

 

FPEG Two Stroke Future Shock

FPEG Two Stroke Future Shock

Patriots Popular At Springfield Parade

Patriots Popular At Springfield Parade

Among the 25-member Delaware County Patriots contingent in Springfield Pa.’s belated Independence Day parade, today, July 5, were (from left) Bill Reil, Dolly Connelly,  Agnes Trouillet, Bill Connelly and Whitey Coyne.

The weather was perfect and the crowd was enthusiastic. The Tea Party group got quite a number of cheers as it  passed out copies of the Bill of Rights and rub-on tattoos with only one angry elderly woman making a disparaging comment at the end.

Agnes, who is from France, is writing a thesis on the Tea Party movement for the University of Paris.

Patriots Popular At Springfield Parade

 

Floating Garbage Million-Ton Estimate Was A Little Off

Andrés Cózar of the University of Cadiz in Spain has revised his estimate of a million ton of plastic garbage floating in Earth’s ocean.

He says he now thinks its between 7,000 to 35,000 tons mostly in small plastic flecks.

His original estimate started a fear frenzy in California with laws banning single-use plastic bags. Millions of sea creatures were being killed it was said.

Nope. That was wrong as well. The experts have no idea who cooked up that figure. We are confident, however, to say that he or she voted for Obama.

And 35,000 tons — the high estimate — is not that much to get excited about. The oceans hold 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water and considering that a gallon of salt water weights about 8.5 pounds that is 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

Hat tip Scott Ott of PJMedia.com

Floating Garbage Million-Ton Estimate Was A Little Off

Floating Garbage Million-Ton Estimate Was A Little Off