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Close to the start of the Twentieth Century, Nikola Tesla invented a wonderfully simple vane less turbine engine which developed ten horsepower per pound of engine weight.Through comparison, today's factory powerful, piston engine makes significantly less than one horsepower per pound of engine weight.Tesla achieved this remarkable capacity to weight ratio with cast iron.Using aluminum for a lot of exactly the same device would jump the energy to weight ratio to at the very least twenty horsepower per pound, that was Tesla's goal...

There are various kinds of driving schools that serve different purposes for different goals of students that hold different degrees of driving mastery.For most people, their first and only connection with taking part in a driving school may be the driver education they receive to be able to obtain their driver's permit or their first license.Oftentimes these first-time drivers choose to benefit from driving school classes provided by the senior high school that he / she attends...

Turbochargers, many people have heard of these, but not many people can explain them.There are lots of different shapes and sizes of turbo-chargers, but there purpose will remain the same - to bring more air into the motor.The best way to think of a turbo is like a big fan, but instead of blowing air it consumes air and squeezes it into the motor.A turbocharger is also much different from a fan in that it's made almost entirely of metal and spins usually between 100,000 and 200,000 RPM's...