The Tuesday Conspiracy

what do you know about tuesday's?

Stole this off the site.

http://www.oxtwo.com

The current prototype of the OX2 engine has approximately 30 parts. It is 12 inches in diameter, 10 inches wide, and weighs less than 140 lb. And has the capacity of 66.25 cubic inches. It operates on a full four-stroke system, however it uses porting rather than valves. It has no camshaft, no distributor, no oil pump, and no water pump. It requires approximately a cup of oil for lubrication purposes and no part of the engine requires viscosity support. It has only three major moving parts, however it has eight pistons. Each piston fires twice every revolution of the output shaft and at no stage do they come in contact with the bores. Rev for Rev the 66 cubic inch OX2 is capable of producing more torque and horsepower than a 350 cubic inch conventional engine.

The purpose of the joint venture is to develop vehicles and engines to demonstrate the advantages of the OX2 engine over conventional technology.

\"If the performance figures are correct the OX2 engine is the most significant advancement in combustion engine technology that I have seen in my life time and it has the potential to revolutionize the worldÂ’s engine industry. We recognize that a tremendous amount has been invested in present engine technology and that an alternate would need to be a vast improvement on what is currently available. We are also aware that we need to be able to show advantages over Hybrid systems. We are confident that this has been achieved with the OX2 engine.\" quotes Carroll Shelby.

There\'s another engine, some dude from Australia, think it\'s called the ox2, that only has 3 moving parts and puts out the same amount of power as a V-8. Kinda reminds me of the Wankle rotary engine.

http://www.oxtwo.com/

#28 - Oh, yeah . . . a fuel cell in the house would be neat, and you wouldn\'t need oxygen and hydrogen run to the house. Most prototype fuel cells just break water down into its oxygen and hydrogen components.

#27 - a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is a vehicle that has a traditional engine (typically a diesel) and an electric motor (and batteries). In some cases, the motor is used for primary propulsion, with the engine kicking in when there\'s demand for more power, or to run a generator when the batteries are low. In other cases the motor is the only propulsion and the engine does nothing but run the generator when necessary. Although I think recent production vehicles from Honda and Toyota have the engine doing primary propulsion with the electric motor providing additional power when necessary.

#28 - I think your numbers about 80 - 90 percent power loss in electrical power transmission are way too high. Even if they\'re right, you\'re not including the energy necessary to refine the crude oil into gasoline, or to transport it to your local gas station. There\'s also a disposal cost associated with the byproducts of the refining process (which are usually pretty nasty).

I do agree with you in that we\'re not likely to find something a fuel that has as high an energy density as gasoline (without using fission or fusion power :)

\"It\'s the queers, they\'re in it with the aliens, they\'re building landing strips for gay martians, I swear to God! You know what Stewart, I like you, you\'re not like all the other people, here, in the trailer park...\"

-The Dead Milkmen

okay, let me go off about electric cars for a second minute. An electric car that you plug into the wall to recharge is actually much less efficient than a gasoline powered car. A normal car\'s engine is about 18% efficient, meaning it can convert 18% of the energy stored in the gasoline into movement. A power plant is much more efficient except something like 80%-90% of the energy produced is lost in transmission through power lines. plus, you lose some in charging your batteries, and in running the car. so your net efficiency starting from fossil fuels is like 5%. this could be avoided if you had a fuel cell at your house and got hydrogen and oxygen through gas lines. of course, this is a really bad in an earthquake zone like california, or anywhere else for that matter.

yeah, and when they can make an electric car that will lay down rubber, i might consider getting one.

#18: Hybrids? Could you explain?

Bah, John Dvorak has no credibility left.

He\'s always raving about one conspiracy theory or another. He rants about Intel trying to corner the market on memory. He concocts strange theories about Microsoft and the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. He spouts so much crap that occassionally he\'s right. The sad thing is that even when he\'s right nobody believes him because he\'s wrong so often.

Oh, yeah, his columns are sprinkled with random bold words.

The Q2 railgun is in stock at Sears, but the Q3 railgun is on backorder. Steve has set up a deal with Sears where you can order the Tin collector\'s box version of the B&D Q3 Railgun too!!!!!!! (some assembly required) ;)

Ya the rail makes a cool huming sound,but listen to the bfg now thats battery power

#9/Britney.
If the patent was created ten years ago then by now the patent would be in the free domain and anyone could use the technology. (patents usually run out after 7 years). There goes that conspiracy theory.

Researchers just recently created fuel cells small enough for cars and car manufacturers couldn\'t be happier to use the technology because it will allow them to produce cars that meet California\'s strict environmental standards; which take effect any year now, and will also spur on users to buy more cars. Trust me, it\'s the oil manufacturers that don\'t want that technology, but it\'s too late. It\'s not patented and you\'ll be seeing fuel cell within 2 years.

#13 Electric cars are ready for production and are already in use. The EV-1 is a fine car for short trips, made by GM, and the hybrids like Toyota Prius (which I\'m helpng to test drive,) will kick ass.

Yawn .. must be Tuesday..

Batteries, huh? This have anything to charging up my \'ol railgun cells?
(I hate when my batteries run out *aim*click*damn*doh*splat*respawn*)

\"Electric cars are, uh, not ready .. for production yet.\"

Hmm. Perhaps I should postpone publishing my recent accidental discovery of warm fusion \"free energy.\" After all, I wouldn\'t want to rock the boat by putting fatcat businessmen and stockholders in the poorhouse. Money is more important than efficiency and quality of life right?

(Oh no!... what?! MIB\'s are at my door?! Get out spooks! Something about national security??!)

Gotta love a good conspiracy theory. :-)

Come on, you didnt know they did that? just like cars are purpously made gas-Inefficenet. About 10 years ago (?) a man made a car that would run off hydrogen fuel (water to the lay person) so it would run completly free and non poluting, so why dont they make it? Car companies bought the pattent and will not produce it. This happens all the time to countless things. I bet Energizer has batteries that cost a buck and would never run out, but they cant make money that way. The same thing with computers. Sure they have 90ghz processors, but before they sell it, they make it 1/4 as strong and make the same money, by later releasing faster chips which are exactly the same, just overclocked. its a sad world

I sense some saricasm in sCary\'s voice...does anybody else?

Man!

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