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From Washington to Mexico on 12.4 Gallons Of Diesel
Craig Henderson drove 1,478 miles from from Blaine, Washington, to Mexico without stopping to refuel, burning just 12.4 gallons of diesel for a stunning 119.1 mpg. And he did it in a car he originally designed in 1984. Henderson rolled into Chula Vista, California, at the wheel of the Avion four days after he left home. The ...09.03.10
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How Cadavers Made Your Car Safer
When automakers and safety advocates show off the results of crash tests, they inevitably feature videos of their cars crashing into things, with or without dummies aboard. Back in the 1980s, federal safety regulators even turned a pair of crash test dummies into the stars of an ad campaign. What the industry doesn't like talking ...08.31.10
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What It's Like Going 307.7 MPH in an EV
What's the most exciting part of setting a land speed record in an electric vehicle? Roger Schroer, who drove the student-built Buckeye Bullet to a record-breaking 307.7 mph, says the true thrill comes from witnessing the teamwork involved in building the car. No, that's not the feel-good copy of a cheesy press release. He says setting ...08.30.10
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Buckeye Bullet Sets EV Land-Speed Record
Topping 307 mph is an amazing feat in any vehicle. It's even more so when the vehicle in question is a student-built electric vehicle. The Venturi Buckeye Bullet built by students at Ohio State University achieved an average speed of 307.7 mph during a two-run pass at the Bonneville Salt Flats on Tuesday. The Bullet, built ...08.26.10
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Mild-Mannered Suzuki Sedan Tops 200 MPH
A heavily modified Suzuki sedan has just joined the 200-mph club at Bonneville and set a land speed record in the process. Road & Track's Sam Mitani hit an average speed of 203.720 mph during a two-way pass at Bonneville on Wednesday morning, setting a new record for the blown gas coupe category. He just topped ...08.19.10
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Electric Motorcycle Racing Comes of Age
Michael Barnes of Lightning Motorcycles has already won the TTXGP North American championship ahead of this weekend's final race. But the real winner is the sport of electric motorcycle racing. As the North American season comes to a close at VIRginia International Raceway this weekend, the people who have organized the races and the teams that ...08.13.10
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Thursday Throwdown: Stromboli's tiny bubbles, Hawaiian lava flow update and recovering from Eyjafjallajökull
Lots of little pieces of news I've run across ... time to play a little catch up. Stromboli: A volcano after Don Ho's heart. Every once in a while, my RSS feeds will dredge up some articles from years gone by ... and this week there were two New York Times pieces that are a few years ...07.29.10
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The Hybrid Inventor Who Sued Toyota - And Won
Alex Severinsky is a Soviet engineer and immigrant to the United States who once developed antitank-warfare instrumentation. In 1994, he patented a system for powering gas-electric hybrid automobiles. Toyota has been using his system since 1997 without permission or payment. Until now. Toyota Motor has settled a patent-infringement case that has dragged on for six years. The ...07.22.10
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Friday Flotsam: All quiet in North Korea, what to watch for at Katla and the Kilauea lava lake
Quick hits to wrap up the week: Looking into a skylight at Kilauea. Image taken July 8, 2010, courtesy of HVO/USGS. Following up some news about Changbaishan/Changbai caldera in North Korea, Yang Qingfu, director of earthquake and volcano analysis and forecast center with the seismology bureau of northeast China's Jilin Province, says that the volcano appears to ...07.09.10
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Driving Cross-Country ... in an Excavator
Jukka Mutanen said he'd drive across Finland in his excavator if he got 50,000 Facebook friends. Well, he ended up with 100,000 and made good on his promise. The Finn better known as "Excavator Mutanen" has finished a truly epic month-long road trip at 2.5 mph. The challenge started simply enough. Mutanen wanted to top 50,000 Facebook ...07.02.10
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Monday Musings: KVERT in trouble again, the volcano takes on a general (and Top Gear) ... and more!
News! The summit crater lake at Gorely in Russia, taken on June 21, 2010. Image courtesy of KVERT. Eruptions readers have been abuzz about how KVERT will be closing shop (yet again) at the end of June. This would, of course, leave no local monitoring and expertise in the very active Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands in ...06.28.10
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"Great" headlines attack!
Africa is threatened by "scorching hot blobs of magma" according to the CSM. Nothing like some fabulous headlines to make your day. The first (courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor) Massive blob of scorching magma discovered under southern Africa Oh my! Yes, again, it seems that the many people in the media seem to be very confused about the ...06.21.10
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Shooting for 400 MPH on an Electric Motorcycle
Eva Håkansson dreams of building a 400-mph streamliner motorcycle with a twist -- it'll be electric. Who's to say she can't do it? She's already built her own electric street bike, her father is a mechanical genius and her husband is the guy behind Killacycle, the quickest EV on the planet. But we are getting a ...06.15.10
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Selling It All to Roam the Country in a Lamborghini
Richard Jordan had everything he was told to want: cars, a house, a fiancé. Then his fiancé left him. So he sold everything, bought a Lamborghini Gallardo and set out across America. This is his amazing story. It's a love story, but not a conventional one. Oh sure, there's a woman. There always is. But it's ...06.11.10
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Electric MotoCzysz Sizzles At TT Zero Motorcycle Race
Michael Czysz and his crew took the checkered flag in the TT Zero electric motorcycle race on the Isle of Man today but missed becoming the first e-moto to lap the famed course at an average of 100 mph. Mark Miller circled the 37.7-mile course aboard the thoroughly bad-ass MotoCzysz E1PC in 23 minutes 22.89 seconds. ...06.10.10
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The Motorcycle of the Future Has Arrived
This is the MotoCzysz E1PC. It is electric. It is almost certainly the most advanced motorcycle on the planet. And it is the future. We told you moto-genius Michael Czysz -- pronounced sizz -- was building another contender for the TT Zero electric motorcycle race on the Isle of Man. But we caught up with him ...06.10.10
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Electric Motorcycle Just Misses 100 MPH at Isle of Man
One hundred miles per hour is nothing for the race bikes racing on the Isle of Man during the famed Tourist Trophy races, but it is an elusive target for the electric motorcycles joining the action. Michael Czysz and his crew are closing in on it though. Mark Miller lapped the 37.7-mile course aboard the MotoCzysz ...06.08.10
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Large eruption at Bezymianny
Undated image of Bezymianny in Kamchatka. Eruptions reader M. Randolph Kruger just let us in on a significant eruption at Bezymianny in Kamchatka. The AVO/KVERT alert for the volcano suggests a fairly significant explosive eruption that might cause some snarls in the international air travel over the Kamchatka Peninsula. The KVERT statement: A strong explosive eruption of ...05.31.10
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Monday Musings: Marianas eruption, Yasur disruptions and the Guatemalan double whammy
Quick news on Memorial Day (in the US at least): Ash soaked by rain from Tropical Storm Agatha on the roofs of homes in Guatemala after the late May eruption of Pacaya. Sixteen scientists were evacuated from islands in the northern Marianas due to the eruption of the unnamed submarine volcano south of Sarigan Island. The eruption ...05.31.10
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Friday Flotsam: Pacaya, Eyjafjallajökull and Katla mongering
This week has been destroyed by workshops and my last death throes with a paper I am submitting on my research in New Zealand. And to think, I thought it might settle down a little after the students left. To news! Ash fall on a taxi cab near Guatemala's Pacaya. Pacaya in Guatemala erupted yesterday causing evacuations of ...05.28.10
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A closer look at the Eyjafjallajökull ash
The ash plume from Eyjafjallajökull, piercing the cloud deck above the volcano. Image courtesy of the Icelandic Met Office, taken on May 13, 2010. See the latest report on the eruption. With all the rapid fire news on eruptions as of late, combined with my busy schedule during the school year, I haven't been able to ...05.20.10
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More on Eyjafjallajökull and the St. Helens Anniversary
News, news, news! Ash from Eyjafjallajökull piling up on a roof at Seljavellir. Image courtesy of the IMO, by Ari Tryggvason. The latest from Eyjafjallajökull has the volcano continuing to puff away - producing intermittent airspace closures over Europe. The Icelandic Met Office reports a ~7 km (21,000 foot) ash plume, but they note that the explosivity ...05.18.10
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Monday Musings: Iceland update, St. Helens anniversary, earthquakes at Hood and Mikeno erupts(?)
Some news for a sleepy Monday: Mt. Hood in Oregon. The ash from Eyjafjallajökull is, once again, causing significant airspace closure over northern Europe - close of 1,000 flights today. However, much of the closures are fairly short-lived, but that isn't keeping people happy. The eruption hasn't actually changed much, just that the winds are bringing ash ...05.17.10
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Friday Flotsam: Eyjafjallajökull, Chilean volcanoes and the Syfy "super eruption"
Time to play a little catch up ... Eyjafjallajökull erupting in early May. Image by and courtesy of Martin Rietze. A brief update on our friend Eyjafjallajökull - the eruption plume from the volcano was considerably taller yesterday, reaching 6-9 km (20,000-30,000 feet), but prevailing winds meant the ash hazard was confined to areas in the middle ...05.14.10
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