California would require that NOx emissions from medium- and heavy-duty trucks be cut by about 90 percent relative to today’s cleanest diesel. India and China mostly do not use diesel cleanup systems, ...

Electrical and hydrogen engines have taken the automobile world by a storm as the world moves towards green energy solutions, now alcohol engines are being thrown into the mix. Union Minister of Road ...

Elon Musk, CEO and founder of SpaceX, said on Twitter on Wednesday, April 22, that the failure of a single Merlin engine in the most recent Starlink launch was due to a "small amount" of isopropyl ...

The use of alcohol as fuel for internal combustion engines is developed from-a historical perspective to present-day technology. Methods of producing the common fuel alcohols, methanol and ethanol, ...

In the book "Beyond Oil and Gas," George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert, and G. K. Surya Prakash do a great job in arguing how methanol may be synthesized not only from the usual 2H 2 + CO CH 3 OH route, but ...

If you've been anywhere in the real Mexico-by that we mean away from Cancun and other tourist fleeces-then you know Mexicans are seriously into a good time and don't waste life on bureaucratic ...

We have been experimenting with alcohol officially since Oct. 1, and before that time with kerosene, alcohol, and gasoline. We have demonstrated that an engine which could be run on any one of these ...

There is something about a big-block that is just plain cool. Combine that X-factor with massive cubic inches, ramped-up compression, and injected alcohol and you have a combination that is set on ...

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