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    45% efficient F1 ICE engine ?

    What is the thingy with the red disk on the right hand side of the photo? GONZ
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    45% efficient F1 ICE engine ?

    Your numbers agree with the numberS I have read since my first brush with ICE efficiency in college physics in 1960. About 1/3 of the potential energy of the fuel goes to each of crankshaft power, heat into cooling, and heat thrown out in exhaust. So potentially if somehow all the wasted heat...
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    My solar-assisted custom tricycle FOLLIES

    Boss. If some is good, more is better. Enough is not enough. Too much, now, that IS enough. My kind of engineering. Thanks for showing it. I always felt like it would be bad luck if my building fell down. So I tried to avoid that possibility. Best GONZO
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    Strange sound in the sky all around the world in 2012

    I have heard a very strange sound in the sky. 1 or 2 years ago in the summer, very roughly 2 in the morning. I don't keep a diary and don't have a photographic memory. I began to notice a sound a few times that seemed to originate in the treetops surrounding me as I sat in my favorite chair in...
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    Tired of these magnet motor believer.

    No kidding. :shock: Actually, you are kidding, but you don't understand it. Ceramic greatly reduces the Lenz but does not eliminate it. Think about it, Jack. Tell me what is making the magnetic field in a "ceramic" magnet? To go Over Unity, a magnet motor must have absolutely no Lenz back...
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    Luke is the Man, Inside batteries from Motorcycle.com

    Spinni, I am a gasoline hot-rodder from way back. In about 1990 I invented the perfect improvement to the piston engine. Luke really does'nt understand the internal combustion engine as well as I do. Unless Luky has also coincidently invented a perfect ICE. Your move, Spinni. doctorGONZO
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    Tired of these magnet motor believer.

    doctorBASS, I have researched a large number of possible OU mechanisms, including "magnet motors" and have reached some conclusions. "Magnet motors" have a very strong flaw in general. Magnets are all polarized CONDUCTIVE material, such as, iron. The moving magnets create eddy currents in...
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    Tired of these magnet motor believer.

    Dear doctorBASS, I am deeply embarrassed to bring this matter to your humble attention, yet, guessing how adamant you may be about linguistic accuracy, I must inform you that there ain't no such word as rEdiculous. There is a word spelled as rIdiculous. With an "I", not with an "E". r I d i c u...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    All of the recent balony has been obfuscative of an important issue. On a race track, under a specific set of conditions, it can be most advantageous to eliminate a gear train. This can eliminate friction loss portrayed by a generic "Rule Of Thumb" 10%, or, in more specific conditions, such as...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    I am terribly sorry if I in any way was abusive to you. Are you dyslexic, and, understand everything that you see, in the reverse, and then insist that YOU are right, and, then, insist that you are abused when someone tells you that you are wrong? Oh, dear! That means that YOU are abusing ME...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    Lukey, pretty baby, it is not obvious that you know what I'm talking about when I write about the 70% loss in the normal electric motor operated in varying load and RPM conditions. So, why don't you explain to us how and why the normal motor has been losing 70% of its input power for over 100...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    O, so NOW Tarzan has decided to give a little bit of definition to his high-flying hyperbolic poetry. Run out of weed? Your head got momentarily clear? Tarzan, pretty man Tarzan, in the REAL WORLD of electric motors, operated in REAL WORLD conditions of driving an e-car in REAL WORLD downtown...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    YOU are not even close. But, I AM afraid of trusting anything you say from now on. Your link was for RIGHT ANGLE DRIVES and UNDER 50 HP. I was talking about straight-line drive trains like in a car. However, assuming that if you were correct, you have not proved anything in your favor. My...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    Well, Luke groupie, tell me just Who luke is, and then we can put it aside. Is luke your boyfriend, is that Who He is? He is real pretty. When I was a young and beautiful man, I was only a little bit prettier. At least, that is what all the girls told me. I don't know what all the boys thought...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    As usual, Luke, you" explain" using only generalities and abstractions, never any specific quantities. I believe that you have insufficiently studied the subject and have reached a grossly inaccurate conclusion. I am willing to learn and ask you to direct me to a definitive source of...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    Luke, you are right when you are talking about a very limited range of application. For example, for the flying mile, or, the flying five mile, at Bonneville, YOU CAN"T GIVE AWAY THE 10%. In a car or bike for commuting, wanting to get the best fuel efficiency (yes, Virginia, let's call our...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    You are right-on, Chalo. In perfect conditions in spotless laboratories, optimally designed electric motors have been proved to give amazingly close to 99% efficiency AT CONSTANT LOAD AND RPM. Bearing friction and windage are cruel realities, along with non-superconductor wires. O, and them...
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    EV transmissions and Popular Science

    The standard engineering Rule Of Thumb for the small amount waste is 10% loss of the inputted power for each case of one gear meshing with another in the drive train. That's why in car talk, manual transmissions are figured to lose 10% and slushomatics lose 30% of the flywheel power. Welcome...
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    BMW's All-Electric 40 Ton Truck Picks Off Low-Hanging Fruit

    Sounds like you are writing about two systems being used concurrently. Regen braking dumps power back into the battery to use it again for propulsion. Dynamic braking dumps power into resistors to dissipate it and throw it away as heat.
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    Interesting new trans for 2016 Chevy Volt

    Yeah. Them big factories only test that kind of stuff 1.98 times before they throw it on the factory floor. GONZ
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    What went wrong?

    Car batteries: Car not running, battery not recently charged with a charger plugged in to grid current, a 12v car battery will normally read between about 12.5v and maybe 13v. They are considered having a charge condition of 100% charge at 13.0v and completely discharged, 0% charge, at 12.0v...
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    What went wrong?

    LOL!! In the movie Sudden Impact, Dirty Harry is bragging to his latest partner, Horace, about his new gun, an AutoMag 44, how powerful it is. "...and when used properly, it can remove fingerprints!" Please, everybody, don't short your world's most powerful batteries. You never know when it...
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    Why did I lose traction and fall on my scooter?

    My experience on two wheels on both small-wheeled scooters and big wheeled full size motorcycles makes me think that the big wheels are much more stable because they are much more powerful as gyroscopes. My full size motorcycle rides were definitely much more difficult to tip over. I never...
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    Why did I lose traction and fall on my scooter?

    I have seen a car get on a patch of transmission oil put there by a dropped and busted small jug of oil, and immediately go totally uncontrollable. The photo of the fall victim sitting on the pebbles looks to me like the pebbles have the unique glisten, or, sheen, of oil coating. I suspect...
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    Very Clean 100% Electric Chopper

    Cute scoot. In the Brut way. But look at the top speed and the range. Your favorite beer store or evening entertainment center better be close by. GONZ
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