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Nice cars other than x-fire
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Be fun to parallel park this puppy…. 
Moving slowly through the sweet-corn fields of California is a weird tractor on stilts. The tractor is used to dust and detassel the high corn. The builder started with a 21-horsepower crawler tractor. He raised the tractor chassis including the motor and transmission so there would be 78 inches of clearance beneath it. Side frames – the “stilts” – support the tractor in this position. Additional sprockets and links of track were installed on each side. The result is a tractor that rolls through the high corn, dusting and detasseling it even during wet weather when rubber-tired tractors bog down in the mud. It has 6-1/2 feet clearance and straddles two rows of corn while dusting 12. A framework across the back holds the dusting equipment. During detasseling, men ride on hangers dropped down between the rows alongside the tractor.
Source: Popular Mechanics (Sept 1954)
Moving slowly through the sweet-corn fields of California is a weird tractor on stilts. The tractor is used to dust and detassel the high corn. The builder started with a 21-horsepower crawler tractor. He raised the tractor chassis including the motor and transmission so there would be 78 inches of clearance beneath it. Side frames – the “stilts” – support the tractor in this position. Additional sprockets and links of track were installed on each side. The result is a tractor that rolls through the high corn, dusting and detasseling it even during wet weather when rubber-tired tractors bog down in the mud. It has 6-1/2 feet clearance and straddles two rows of corn while dusting 12. A framework across the back holds the dusting equipment. During detasseling, men ride on hangers dropped down between the rows alongside the tractor.
Source: Popular Mechanics (Sept 1954)
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You park it wherever you want! LOL
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My classic mini. One of my most favourite cars of all time.
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yeahhh.... Not a fan of the rotary... The only Wankel I will ever get will be from my masseuse....
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Its a Star Wars prototype
I thought it was a knockoff from the Terminator
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Keep away from those "Rub 'N Tug's". They take the wrinkle from your wankel .
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Brave man. And no Nomex .
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Dave Schroeder is the overall winner of HOT ROD Drag Week 2021. With an average time of 6.793 at 198.08 mph over five days of racing in his brand-new 2019 Corvette , Schroeder can claim the rights of having the Fastest Street Car in America.
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I recently found out you have to add oil to the gas to lube the cylinder seals. That almost makes it a 2 stroke engine.
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Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing but fresh water out of the tailpipe.
H2Starfire engine: A new and insanely efficient type of rotary
Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing but fresh water out of the tailpipe.
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I wonder what the future has in store for us?????Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing but fresh water out of the tailpipe.
H2Starfire engine: A new and insanely efficient type of rotary
Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing but fresh water out of the tailpipe.
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That's a "Street Car"? I wonder, does the wife use it to get groceries?
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What would be interesting to know is where you would go to refuel it ….
List of Hydrogen Stations in Canada
List of Hydrogen Stations in Canada| DEALER | ADDRESS | CITY |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrogenics-Corporation | 220 Admiral Blvd | Mississauga |
| HTEC | 5105 Bd Wilfrid-Hamel | Québec |
| Esso | 4001 Quadra St | Victoria |
| Shell | 8686 Granville St | Vancouver |
| Shell | 4505 Canada Way | Burnaby |
| Shell | 344 Harbour Ave | North Vancouver |
| Esso | 2501 Westview Dr | North Vancouver |
| Esso | 1901 Harvey Ave | Kelowna |
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When stable cold fusion is achieved, bearing in mind that it’s been just around the corner for about 50 years, and quantum computers become reasonably priced and widely available then everything changes. Throw in the exponential advances in AI using LLM’s and the sky is the limit. Consider the changes over the last 50 years that have taken place without to a great degree many of the currently available technologies and where we will be in another 50 years is anyone’s guess.
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