This is another story that keeps on doing the rounds - a claimed perpetual motion engine. The idea is simple: push an electric current through water to get two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen and then burn them to get water (with a power stroke). The idea is so simple that it cannot work effectively! However that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists from thinking up some … [Read more...]
Coventry Climax Racing Engines
Coventry Climax was a specialist engine builder founded back in the early years of the industry. Their glory days were in the 1950s and early 1960s when they built several very successful racing engines. This article will concentrate on the engines they built initially for Formula 1, some of which ended up being used in the US and some were shipped to Australia for the Tasman … [Read more...]
Alf Lysholm
Alf James Rudolph Lysholm appears to be the least known engineer who developed a piece of kit that can now be found in many different applications: planes, trains, automobiles - even refrigeration units! In fact, by far the majority of web sites that discuss Lysholm have simply cut and paste a very small item from Wikipedia. His life though, was far more than just a couple of … [Read more...]
Delphi Fuel Efficiency Technology
The industry is in a state of flux at the moment - the media loves the idea of electric cars, although no one talks about where the electricity to recharge the vehicles is coming from. Honda and several other manufacturers are still developing fuel cells and Motoring Weekly recently wrote about the Nikola truck that uses this technology. There have also been articles about … [Read more...]
Nissan/Infiniti Variable Compression Engine
The evolution of the internal combustion engine is still ongoing despite vast quantities of funding moving towards electric motors. The focus for most manufacturers is to get as much power out of each sip of fuel. Over the years, engines have had extra kit added on to the simple base unit of cylinders that sucked in a fuel/air mix and ignited it. In the early days it was … [Read more...]