Wow! This isn’t Crack Pipe territory here, this is Industrial Waste Incinerator territory.

There is a clear disctinction between tuning for more performance, where possibly exceeding pollution limits is an unintended by-product, and tuning specifically for dumping a massive overdose of diesel into the engine to roll coal, where pollution *IS* the goal.

It’s interesting that the Discovery Channel, a network which once focused on science, technology, and history has devolved in a way to air shitty reality television and science ignorant programming like this. Shame, that.

Possible, but i don’t think it’s very likely. The angle between the ports and unknown block is 90° so a fully upright block makes the most sense. 

It would make sense if it's a two-stroke application and you'd need room to attach check valves for each port to prevent backdraft. 

Those things, tw0-stroke and oiling, should be regarded separately.

This thing is screwing up my brain.It looks like it’s from a straight six but what kind of engine has ports (likely intake -because this thing is Al alloy) at different heights??

Some straight 6-es are actually 3+3 in-line. The Honda CBX line-6, for instance, had its timing chain in the middle:

So: probably for a straight 6. Obviously triple carb, probably downdraft, and, guessing based on the letterbox shape of the pretty nicely equal-length runners, it may be for a 2-stroke engine.

Koenigsegg, OTOH, has the engine only supplying a little over 1/3 of the total power output, so when the battery is depleted, it becomes a 600 HORSEPOWER FRONT-WHEEL-DRIVE car

If there is hybridisation, the battery will be replaced but it won’t be original

For starters, it was a first attempt at a product size outside of our regular production range, so there was an element of business secret to it. Second, a steel mill typically doesn’t operate on a very artistic level. Third, it was just over 4 metric ton of perfectly good low carbon steel which could be put to good…

That’s fine. I am a huge Pratchett fan, but I found Banks’ Culture series a very nice read as well. If that tiny bit of description doesn’t work for you? No problem. (My own Best Sci-Fi series is still The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson.)

Years ago I worked at a hot rolling mill. I had my camera with me because they were testing new equipment. It didn’t go as planned, the steel bar did a run out.

In the excellent Culture series (well, those involving ships anyway) the Culture ships are sentient. Each Culture ship has a Mind, an AI *way* more sentient than man. So really, the Minds are active characters in the Culture series, they scheme, interact (both with each other and with humans and aliens from…

No, the claim is that a strong pollutant is in (the aircon system of) cars, which is only a problem when it is not re-captured like it is supposed to be. Still, my point was that, should it leak, it’s only the equivalent of a few thousand miles/km of driving. So, at least in relative terms, R134a isn’t that strong of…

My car has 450 grams of R134a in it’s airco system. Should that escape instead of being siphoned off, that would be the equivalent to 450 x 1430 = 643500 gram CO2.

Metallurgist here.

I’ve never once met a person who said, “I love my electric stove.” Culinary experts and food media alike have always driven home the point that these stoves are supposedly inferior in every way: They don’t get hot enough, and it’s harder to control their heat levels.

Those Feds should be shown around here in The Netherlands... If you want to increase safetly then create dedicated bike lanes.