Another vehicle that needs rotary power! ;-)
http://www.aeromobil.com/
Dan G.
Quite remarkable. Unfortunately it will never make it in the US as it
does not meet DOT car rules for all sorts of things let alone side impact.
My 1973 RX2 weighed about 2000 pounds. My 2004 RX8 weighs
3000 pounds with the same engine weight and a smaller body thanks
to the draconian and do good wacko Democrats:)
This extra weight results in 15% worse MPG at 60 MPH where rolling
resistance is equal to aerodynamic drag.
The Renault Clio I rented in Europe this year is about the same
size as the RX2 and larger than the RX8 with more room weighed 2100 pounds.
I don't think the death rate is any higher in Europe despite the lack of
speed limits on the Autobahn. The Clio would do 180 clicks. Renault
claims 63 MPG for the Clio. I am sure not at 180 clicks :)
Paul Lamar
The use of four wheels makes this Aeromobil subject to the Motor Vehicle
Safety Standards for automobiles. However if three wheels were used it
could be qualified as a motorcycle and would not need to meet all the
crash tests required for automobiles. The best configuration with three
wheels is one rear driving wheel and two front wheels steering. Not
only does it give the best highway stability it also offers the greater
simplicity by reducing the parts count.
The Rotax 912 does not seem like the best choice of engines for highway
use because some form of forced air cooling system is necessary. I
think the Mazda rotary engine would be a better choice.
Bob Young
You have not seen a BIG storm, we get them every 3 days, Yes you are going
to get a LOT of rain, according to the weather sat image. Interesting this
Global Warming , we have a dock built in 1930 that was at least 4 to 5
feet higher
than High Water Mean level.
now its just kissing the bottom timbers, any idea's Paul !
Steve Carlisle
Your dock is sinking into the mud. Put some ice into a glass of water.
Mark the water level in the class. Let the ice melt. Note the final
water level
in the glass. It will be lower. Ice is lower density than water.
Therefore the melting arctic ice (if any) has nothing to do with it.
Perhaps it
is melting ice from Greenland. Greenland is a bowl. When the ice and
snow melt (if ever) Greenland would become a land of lakes with the
water seeping mostly into the aquifer (f the permafrost ever melted)
and not necessarily running off into the ocean.
Global warming is a product of academia. Most college professors
suffer from a contagious mental illness called Emotional Belief System.
Narcissism is part of it. They got it from their teachers that got it from
their teachers and so on and so on. None of them every had a real job
so they are totally naive on how the world works. Pardon the pun.
They never emotionally matured. That takes a job in the dog eat dog
real world.
The other flaw in academia is how a person gets a PHD.
They must write a thesis. The Emotional Belief System is the happy
hunting ground for subjects to write a thesis on.
The other problem with global warming is old tools were used to measure
the temperatures prior to satellites.
Measuring tools have three necessary characteristics. Accuracy
(is it 86.6 or 85.5?), resolution ( is it 85.51 or 85.52?) and
repeatability. Another problem was random samples from
isolated locations around the world with non certified measuring tools
were used.
In order to accurately measure the average temperature of a relatively
non conducting object one must divide the surface of the object into a
uniform grid and add all the temperatures measured with the same tool
and divided by the number of grids.
When satellites became available this was done. The data showed the
earth was cooling off . Academia was shocked. It did not correlate
with their EBS so they starting lying about the data. They got caught
when some if not all of their emails were hacked.
To save face they changed the name of the program to Climate Change.
Rain today sunny tomorrow.
Copyright Paul Lamar 12-12-2014.
I like this part, "Copyright Paul Lamar 12-12-2014." informational
and entertaining all in one. !
Thanks, Steve Carlisle
Yes, Paul said it nicely.
Here is an apparently leaked docu.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420783/Worlds-climate-scientists-confess-Global-warming-just-QUARTER-thought--computers-got-effects-greenhouse-gases-wrong.html
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