Motorhead Messiah
Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him?
“Check it out. It's actually a jet engine," says Johnathan Goodwin, with a low whistle. "This thing is gonna be even cooler than I thought." We're hunched on the floor of Goodwin's gleaming workshop in Wichita, Kansas, surrounded by the shards of a wooden packing crate. Inside the wreckage sits his latest toy--a 1985-issue turbine engine originally designed for the military. It can spin at a blistering 60,000 rpm and burn almost any fuel. And Goodwin has some startling plans for this esoteric piece of hardware: He's going to use it to create the most fuel-efficient Hummer in history.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Sorry To Get Serious
But I found this article about a middle school drop out that is out engineering Detroit.
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Great article, but "out engineering Detroit" is like saying "out PR-ing Michael Vick"
Yeah the bar isn't very high up there. But your typical middle school dropout usually can't do it. Usually. So like maybe only 40% can.
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