Cobb got nailed by the EPA

[MAGS1]

yeah but would you like to be strangled by your hand strap when you let loose a cloud in the packed cheek by jowl commuter train?

I’ve seen/smelled way worse

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[luc]

Obviously I believe you are older than I am due to the context of this story. I could be wrong.

But I have been hearing some version of this story since the day I can remember anything to do with cars. Its not always some magic carb. Rotary engines have been brought up about a million times.

As a business owner personally believe you all have this backwards. If I got wiff of something this game changing in my industry I would absolutely try to go out and find it. But there is no fucking way I am shelving a 100 MPG carb because of a check Exxon can write me. They are ultra wealthy. But do you all have any idea what a car company would be worth if they had a car that could triple everyone else's gas mileage? Not only would you be able to capitalize on the technology on your cars you would also be able to lease this tech to all of the big car makers for MASSIVE money. It would literally be market changing profit all the way around.

I hardly believe that someone shelved a trillion dollar part. Ever. Money talks and the first person to invent something like that would have made the next Tesla and the oil hush money would be a non issue. Patent it so nobody else could steal it and you would be a billionaire overnight.

Markets do drive markets. But advances that are worth that kind of money are not swept under the rug so Shell can keep making oil. They could even be so bad as to only put this carb in higher dollar cars to force the "normal" people like ourselves to buy less efficient cars.

Well said
What is a bit scary is how so many people believe so much crap
And repeat as facts or truths something they have read or heard without applying to it even a modicum of critical thinking or some basic common senses and/or facts checking

 

[shogun32]

the big problem with carbs is they are very imprecise at metering fuel.

 

[K4fxd]

the big problem with carbs is they are very imprecise at metering fuel.

Actually they are pretty damn good at metering, atomization is where they suffer.

 

[luc]

Actually they are pretty damn good at metering, atomization is where they suffer.

I find my carbureted motorcycles to be much smoother on the on-off-on transition than my fi bikes

 

[K4fxd]

I find my carbureted motorcycles to be much smoother on the on-off transition than my fi bikes

A well tuned carb is a beautiful thing.

 

[GregO]

George Boswell….. LOL
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/george-a-boswell

Nothing beats a Lectron in the carburetor world.

 

[K4fxd]

Maybe those patents are why Smokey's never came to market.

 

[GregO]

Boswell served time in the big house.

 

[Epiphany]

Gonna have to melt all those pennies in jugs you have filled to the top in the closet and just maybe, save the world.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...&cvid=eb37d82612b644e38abb3b457b47570d&ei=12#

https://www.mining.com/wp-content/u...per-mining-and-vehicle-electrification_vf.pdf

 

[Buldawg76]

Obviously I believe you are older than I am due to the context of this story. I could be wrong.

But I have been hearing some version of this story since the day I can remember anything to do with cars. Its not always some magic carb. Rotary engines have been brought up about a million times.

As a business owner personally believe you all have this backwards. If I got wiff of something this game changing in my industry I would absolutely try to go out and find it. But there is no fucking way I am shelving a 100 MPG carb because of a check Exxon can write me. They are ultra wealthy. But do you all have any idea what a car company would be worth if they had a car that could triple everyone else's gas mileage? Not only would you be able to capitalize on the technology on your cars you would also be able to lease this tech to all of the big car makers for MASSIVE money. It would literally be market changing profit all the way around.

I hardly believe that someone shelved a trillion dollar part. Ever. Money talks and the first person to invent something like that would have made the next Tesla and the oil hush money would be a non issue. Patent it so nobody else could steal it and you would be a billionaire overnight.

Markets do drive markets. But advances that are worth that kind of money are not swept under the rug so Shell can keep making oil. They could even be so bad as to only put this carb in higher dollar cars to force the "normal" people like ourselves to buy less efficient cars.

Like I said it was 40 years ago and if I remember correctly, he was an engineer at NASA at the time that was just tinkering on it in his home garage. It may have very well been both big auto and oil that stepped in when they got word if what he was doing and tried to steal/stop him from proceeding further.

I don't have any hard facts or details but lived in the area and worked as an auto tech at the time. I believe when they tried to steal/stop him from proceeding he just closed the project down and would never divulge any info to them. He was not in it for the money but rather to help the everyday person since this was right after the gas crunch/shortages of the 70s.

Believe me or not it makes no difference now.

I will go with the British "SU" carb as one of the simplest and best carbs to ever be designed. The problem is most never really understood how simple and easy it was to tune. Very few moving parts and simple to work on and tune.

BD

 

[GregO]

Gonna have to melt all those pennies in jugs you have filled to the top in the closet and just maybe, save the world.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...&cvid=eb37d82612b644e38abb3b457b47570d&ei=12#

https://www.mining.com/wp-content/u...per-mining-and-vehicle-electrification_vf.pdf

Ok class, what metallic material is used to transfer electricity from point A to point B to charge EV’s ?

 

[shogun32]

Ok class, what metallic material is used to transfer electricity from point A to point B to charge EV’s ?

unicorn tail feathers and trans-oceanic railways?
ok, these days it's aluminium. Another metal that takes just mind-boggling amount of electricity to convert from ore/bauxite to usable product.

I've said it before. People pushing EV, 'renewable', or "green" have an IQ lower than sub-Saharan Africa and can't be bothered to do ANY research on how the world (or physics) actually works. They are so blasted ignorant they should dig a trench and bury themselves in the soil of mother earth and rid us of their presence.

 

[K4fxd]

It may have very well been both big auto and oil that stepped in when they got word if what he was doing and tried to steal/stop him from proceeding further.

40 years ago US auto manufacturers were falling all over themselves to make C.A.F.E. If this carb was real, one or all would have jumped on it.

His invention was probably a system like the system Smokey Yunick designed and built. Unfortunately it was too complicated to mass produce at the time. From reading on this forum it may have run into patent issues.

 

[K4fxd]

Ok class, what metallic material is used to transfer electricity from point A to point B to charge EV’s ?

It's not just transmission lines it is the copper windings in the motors and the battery connects and other wiring in the car itself.

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