Phillips made Stirling Engines with a swash plate mechanism.

Sounds a bit like a V10.

The current working definition of "rape" inches closer to simply "regret". That is, the effective bargain is that consent can be rescinded after the fact. Thus any sexual encounter become much like a software EULA, wherein every sexual encounter necessarily entails a liability that exists in perpetuity and throughout…

The CVT won't keep the engine operating at peak torque. I don't believe I said that. Rather, it would allow it to rev to maximum power, the operating RPM at which the engine can produce useful work at a maximum rate.

This reminds me a lot of the twiddle that my school did with grades back in my high school days, just as the competitive college entry thing was just starting to heat up:

Power = energy * rate. Here, power = torque * rotational speed. The units of power are energy per time, or Joules per second, or foot-pounds per minute. The units of torque are the units of energy, Joules, or foot-pounds.

Power = energy * rate. Here, power = torque * rotational speed. The units of power are energy per time, or Joules per second, or foot-pounds per minute. The units of torque are the units of energy, Joules, or foot-pounds.

1. You mean 'minimize' fuel consumption, but, yes. And I think some CVT's, like those that Mini has (used to have?) just emulate 8 discrete gears.

Sure. What's the objection? Shift time is eliminated, and the engine can arrive at a power peak quicker, and stay at that operating point.
Here's the only reference I came across in a short search, although it does go against my argument:

Eh, I think you're mis-understand what a "CVT" is. Or a "transmission". Or "fast". I mean, I think you're having more of an emotional reaction.

It's faster, brah. By a lot.

What tops all of the horrible things I ever encountered, and can't really imagine ANYTHING worse than this is an English woman, as far as I could guess from her accent from Liverpool, at first glance normal 30-ish woman, not ugly not magazine-beautiful, wearing rather small tanktop and short jean shorts (it was a hot…

Your holiday is over. You're on your way back to civilization. Don't take off your sandals and put your feet all over the place, because it's just gross.

Well, if it's an attractive girl, it's OK. Especially if she's sitting next to me, and doesn't get all weirded out when I compliment her on the condition of her feet. And offer her a foot massage.

Boy, and there was just another major trailer theft reported a couple of days ago.

Same thing I said with all the fires. And as soon as I saw this.

Maybe people shouldn't own dogs. Or there shouldn't be an expectation that they get taken everywhere.

So, a great deal of the law has to do with intent. In the picture you paint, should the SUV driver be charged with, say, attempted murder, or assault with a deadly weapon? No. Maybe, if there is reasonable suspicion to establish a story like the one you describe in your comment, then the SUV driver could maybe be…

Counter-prediction: There is going to suddenly be a rash of Tesla fires, all in a succession, one or two per week, all with extreme media coverage.

So? The cost per job created is completely irrelevant. Job creation is an absolute, independant metric for quotation when comparing candidates. Job creation is the realm of "professional politicking", not actual economics.