I blogged previously about this same steam-powered racer, but at the time, its status as “fastest steam-powered car” was not yet official.
On August 25, 2009 at 8:19am a 25-ft. long car smashed the century old record of 127 mph at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The British Steam Car hit an average speed of 139.843 [...]
It’s a Steam Punk fanatic’s simultaneous pipe dream and nightmare.
The dream? Using steam power to drive a car. After several set backs last week, yesterday the British Steam Car Team unofficially broke the 103 year-old world steam-powered land speed record. The speed record has been held for more than a century by American Fred [...]
Did an airline do something to piss you off? Bump you off an overbooked flight? Leave you stranded at an airport because you were so delayed the connecting flight wouldn’t wait? Break your clearly marked FRAGILE THIS SIDE UP luggage?
Before the rise of Twitter, the best customers could do was make angry phone calls, send [...]
We talk of engines having hundreds of horsepower these days and hardly stop to think about what the word “horsepower” used to mean. It’s a measure of energy – 1 horsepower is about 745 watts, or the energy that the average horse exerts on something it’s pulling.
So imagine a moment the power of a [...]
Following GM’s 230mpg claim for the Chevy Volt, Nissan has been kicking up a storm. It claims that its new electric car, the Leaf, can get up to 367 miles to the gallon. But here’s the catch – it’s completely electric and doesn’t use any fuel whatsoever! So technically, it either gets infinity miles per [...]
At some point while you were still young in school, I’m sure you dreamed about arriving at school in your own flying machine. It could be a plane, a flying skateboard, or even a helicopter. But you didn’t do anything about it, because, well, you were in second grade.
Unlike you, though, Wu Zhongyuan of [...]
It’s a well-known fact that airplanes are uncomfortable, especially when the asshole in front of you suddenly reclines while you’re eating, causing you to spill your hot (watered down) coffee on yourself. If you’re tired of that, you can try out the Knee Defenders. Designed to slip over the eating trays, these things block the [...]
Chicken consumption in the US creates over six billion pounds of feathers each year. Previously discarded as waste, researchers at the University of Delaware are developing an innovative way to put all that wasted plumage to use — as fuel to power hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. If this technology was implemented in a fuel cell [...]
What is a petrol giant doing making electric cars? Covering its ass. While it lobbies against anti-oil measures, ExxonMobil has been busy developing its own electric car for when the oil reserves run out. The Maya 300, a lithium-ion battery powered car that can drive up to 120 miles on one charge yet has the look [...]
You probably have seen the ads for it. Fly Clear is a biometric-based service that speeds pre-cleared passengers through airport security. You pay $199 per subscription, and it can save you time and frustration at selected airports. But not anymore. The company “quietly” folded (the newspapers aren’t reporting it on the front page but it’s [...]
