If you have a pile of old motorcycle parts, some tubing, an old steel drum, the seat from a junk car, you might think it's time to get it all hauled away, so you can get serious about building your next project, right? But wait, why not upcycle this junk and turn it into parts? Professor Pardal in Brazil did exactly that, he looked at all of this and saw a steam powered trike … [Read more...]
Can Synthetic Fuels Save Your Internal Combustion Engine?
Most every motor vehicle manufacturer is pushing the development of electric vehicles to one degree or another, some even committing to an all electric lineup in the not too distant future, all in the name of climate change. Whatever you may think of that issue, when so many companies are going electric and current political forces are anti-fossil fuel, you might want to have a … [Read more...]
Heated Electric Motorcycle Jackets for Cold Weather Driving in Electric Cars
Electric cars have a problem in winter, batteries don't do as well in the cold and heaters drain the battery even faster. I came across a neat article talking about all of the tips electric car owners are sharing about how to stay warm in the chilly weather without making matters even worse, and, yes, motorcycles are involved. After discussing all sorts of tech fixes … [Read more...]
After the Apocalypse You Can Still Run Your Motorcycle on Wood Gas
When zombies are shuffling all across the landscape it probably won't be long before leftover gasoline begins to disappear, then what? Well, you could park your sidecar rig and start walking, or you could go the flex fuel route and run it on wood gas. That's what they did in WWII and that's what this guy did over in Russia. On what looks to be a pretty well used Ural Dnepr, … [Read more...]
Locomotives May Shake Up the Transportation Fuels Market
What do locomotives have to do with transportation fuels? Maybe a lot. Warren Buffet, who owns BNSF Railway Co., the largest railroad and one of the largest consumers of diesel fuel in the US, is planning to begin testing the use of natural gas as fuel for the locomotives in the 6900 unit BNSF fleet. Others have been been experimenting with natural gas, too, but BNSF, in … [Read more...]
Dearman Liquid Air Engine
In this age of cutting edge, high tech everything, you have to love the fellow working in his shed and coming up with a more efficient way of running an engine on liquid nitrogen, or in this application, liquid air. Peter Dearman has patented his process and it's called the Dearman engine. The basic operation is pretty straightforward. When a gas is chilled to a very low … [Read more...]
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