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Old 03-13-2011, 10:36 AM   #1 (permalink)
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What our Dept. of Energy has been up to

Efficiency related development work for transportation. Some of it, I think, misguided; some of it potentially useful; and much of it at least interesting. Your tax dollars at work...

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehicles...hments_rpt.pdf

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Old 03-13-2011, 12:31 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I'll take the titanium suspension parts, please. And maybe a couple of the lightweight composite seats, if they do them for the front.
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...what happened to the very light-weight carbon-fiber engine development?

...HCCI sounded promising, but looked rather sparse.
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Old 03-13-2011, 09:36 PM   #4 (permalink)
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I hadn't thought about using soft switching under light load, sounds tricky but doable.

Could do without all the onboard hydrogen malarkey.

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