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One of GM’s most complicated engines had no crankshaft, four pistons, two cylinders, a turbine, and could run on whale oil
Automotive history is full of dead ends that eventually get lost to time. Seventy years ago, the free-piston engine was ...
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The 1970s oil crisis was so bad that General Motors made an Oldsmobile run on a coal-burning turbine
The gasifier section provides a source of compressed hot gas, and energy from this gas is delivered by the power section to the car’s rear wheels. Thus, the gasifier section replaces the engine and ...
Pre-swirl systems are a critical component in modern gas turbine engines, designed to condition the cooling airflow before it reaches the turbine rotor blades. By imparting a controlled rotational ...
I hear you, brother. I understand energy efficiency and all that stuff. But in Despicable Me when you see Gru tooling around in his jet-powered SUV (or maybe it’s rocket-powered; the details of ...
The rules changed for 1964, so the redesigned Rover-BRM was allowed to tackle the 24-hour enduro officially. Unfortunately, ...
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