whitish gray smoke started coming out the exhaust when i was driving to school

when i stopped the car would shake more then usual. the exhaust would by smoky when i started to move from a stopped position.

at school when i stopped i looked under the hood and the anti freeze was dra

Whilst lookin up information on the effiency of a trompe pump i discovered this link.

It may give ideas to someone to try and perfect it for third world countries or where there is no electricity

http://www.appropedia.org/Pulser_pump#Principle_of_Operation

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In the beginning of the month New England Journal of Medicine published an article detailing the security risk of wireless controlled implantable devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators. Researchers at Microsoft have proposed a possible solution that would all

From Boing Boing:

Nick Clegg, leader of the UK Liberal Democrats party, has pledged to repeal the odious Digital Economy Act, which was rushed through without substantial debate before Parliament adjourned for the election. Time to start asking the other party leaders and MPs if th

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The introduction of genetically modified crops has had a positive impact on farm sustainability, according to a new report by the National Research Council (NRC). But the evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds could erase the effective

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So, can't stand the view of the wall from your windowless office? Wish you could see something else than a featureless landscape from your drab bedroom? Enters Winscape: 1Because waking up in the same place every morning is just too boring.

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As an Icelandic volcano spewed more ash on Friday, disrupting air travel in Europe for a second day, the big question for scientists was how long the eruption might continue. The answer will go a long way toward determining any lasting impact on air travel, c

I have been looking at tromp design and wondered were the "extra energy" extracted from the compressed bubbles which are harvested from such a device is calculated.

If a flow of water falls from level A to level B the potential energy can be easily calculated.

Where air is added t

Has anyone thought about building houses and businesses on barges and sinking them into the ground? The idea is to allow the house/business to float in areas prone to flooding like along rivers and coastlines. The barge would be set flush into the ground and have guide posts at the corners to keep t

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I'm trying to find the applicable codes for refrigerant monitoring systems in CA. Once installed, do they need to report to a BAS or a FLS? Where does the main panel get located? Outside the chiller room or inside? I've searched the code sites that I know of and I'm coming up empty. Am I

With the modern advances in concrete mix design and the use of chemical and other admixtures being used to create materials such as self consolidating concrete, why are so many professionals still using slump as a measure or indicator of what final STRENGTH might be?

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Suppose you could leapfrog 100 years of experience in the automotive industry and begin a new manufacturing epoch. The strategic change you would make is to lightweight the vehicle, observes Charles Fine. Although steel has been the material of cho

Would you please point me to a reliable source of reference that will tell me what relation exists between the Stregnth of a Gear material and a hole machined into the gear.

Say I design a spur gear pair, selecting its module m = 7 & number of teeth Tp = 20, thereby finding its mean

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From Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:

With the end of the world apparently scheduled for December 31, 2012, there's sure to be a number of opportunistic companies looking to cash in on the upcoming apocalypse. One such company is Vivos, which envisions a network of 20

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MyFord Touch promises to better connect drivers to their phones and MP3 players as well as the functions that are traditionally controlled by buttons and knobs. The screen will be displayed on a 4.2-inch LCD located directly in front of the driver next to the speedom

From Scientific American:

Today's supercomputers run hot, thanks to power-hungry microprocessors that enable sophisticated scientific research and complex financial transactions to be performed in the blink of an eye. As these microprocessors have become smaller and more powerful

From Gizmodo:

It's scaremongering at best, but yesterday's volcanic ash story has turned into a right old mess for the aviation industry, with all planes grounded until at least Sunday in the UK. Even worse, a much larger volcano could erupt. As I said yesterday, the Eyjafjallaj

From NYT > Technology:

For the 140 computer network specialists, law enforcement agents and diplomats from eight countries who met in this German ski resort this week for a Russian-sponsored conference on Internet security, the biggest challenge was finding a common ground to discu

Hello!

does somebody know if ST35 is a stainless steel or a normal steel?

thanks