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• Another Peek At The New Electric Superbike
  Azhar Hussain sent us another teaser shot of the Mavizen electric superbike he'll unveil next month in Vegas, so we'll play along and share it with you. This seizure-inducing shot shows one of the bike's two Agni electric motors, which sit on either side of the bikes driveshaft (?!). You can also (barely) see the bike's ...
  10.27.09

• Another Electric Superbike Is Coming
  Watch out, Mission Motors. That's a Mavizen coming up behind you. Azhar Hussain, the guy who organized the TTxGP motorcycle green grand prix, is about to unveil a production version of the electric superbike we told you about back in January. No word yet on the specs, but Hussain is starting the drip drip drip of ...
  10.23.09

• Cadillac-Powered Streamliner Does 330.7 MPH
  This is Infidel, a streamliner powered by a twin-turbo 529-cubic-inch Cadillac engine with 1,900 horsepower and 1200 foot-pounds of torque. It just did 330.7 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. That makes it the world's fastest gasoline-powered vehicle. And the guy behind it vows to keep going until it hits 400 mph. Infidel is the latest ...
  10.12.09

• Cleveland erupts!
  And not because the Indians' season is finally (mercifully) over (zing!) Cleveland steaming away in a 2008 AVO image. Cleveland (the volcano) erupted on Friday, producing an ash column that reached 4.5-6 km / 15,000-20,000 feet. The full report from AVO: Satellite data indicate that Cleveland volcano erupted briefly this morning at ~0730 UTC (2330 AKDT) 02 October ...
  10.04.09

• Jay Leno Brings EVs Into America's Living Room
  Jay Leno is to cars as Taylor Swift is to music videos. His legendary Los Angeles garage is a shrine to internal combustion, packed with cars and motorcycles of every description. With the rest of Hollywood switching from Porsches to Priuses, it might seem Leno is at the back of the eco pack. But he's ...
  09.18.09

• Video: Mission One Electric Superbike at 150 mph
  Yesterday we told you about the Mission One electric superbike hitting a record-setting 150.059 mph out at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Now we've got some video from the guys at Mission Motors to show you what it was like. Mission Motors has always promised its first electric motorcycle would top 150. To prove it, the team ...
  09.16.09

• Mission Accomplished: Electric Motorcycle Hits 150 MPH
  Mission Motors has always said its electric superbike would do 150 mph, and it appears to have fulfilled that promise with a record-setting run at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Company product manager and test rider Jeremy Cleland set an unofficial record for electric motorcycles when he averaged 150.059 mph during back-to-back runs of one mile each ...
  09.15.09

• The ongoing eruption at Koryaksky (along with 5 other volcanoes in Kamchatka!)
  Koryaksky (Koryak) in Russia Yesterday in the USGS/SI update, I mentioned the current eruption going on at Koryaksky (a.k.a. Koryak). Today, the NASA Earth Observatory has some images of the plume from the Russian volcano heading out to the east over the Peninsula. The plume itself looks fairly diffuse and mostly whitish steam rather than laden ...
  08.27.09

• Monday Musings, Part 2 (UPDATED)
  Some more volcano news for the day ... UPDATE 10:40AM Eastern: It has been pointed out to me that both of these articles are old. They apparently made it into my Google News feed thanks to a glitch in the magic interweb tubes somewhere. Just goes to show that blogging before coffee on a Monday after ...
  08.10.09

• Kettle Slow to Boil for British Steam Car
  The British Steam Car team has had a rough month in the Southern California desert, where scorching heat and mechanical problems have stymied the effort to topple a speed record that has stood for 103 years. In the weeks since the crew and the car arrived at Edwards Air Force Base on June 29, mechanical gremlins ...
  07.28.09

• Shiveluch has second large eruption in this month
  Shiveluch volano in Russia. Just like last summer seemed like a busy time for the Aleutians (Cleveland, Okmok and Kasatochi), this summer could be dubbed the "summer of Kamchatka-Kurils" (alright, it isn't that catchy, sorry). The biggest news was/is, of course, the sizeable eruption from Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands, but not to be outdone, ...
  06.29.09

• Tuesday Tidbits
  A few quick news bits ... and thanks for the questions so far. Keep 'em coming! Tungurahua, Ecuador erupting in 2006. Ash fall from Tungurahua (in spanish) in Ecuador is affecting the farm towns around the volcano. Farmers in Manzano, a village nearby, fear the ash is significant enough to damage their crops. The volcano itself is ...
  06.23.09

• Inside Jesse James' Record-Breaking Hydrogen Racer
  Motorcycle madman Jesse James has unofficially broken the land speed record for a hydrogen-powered vehicle, and he did it in a car that packs modern technology into a vintage racer more than 40 years old. The guy behind West Coast Choppers blazed across El Mirage Dry Lake Bed at 199.7 mph in a car he claims ...
  06.18.09

• Sarychev Peak Update for 6/18/2009
  Sarychev Peak erupting on June 12th. Image taken on the ISS, courtesy of the NASA EO. The eruption as Sarychev Peak seems to be waning a bit, at least according to some of the latest images from the NASA Earth Observatory's collection of MODIS shots. The ash plume is less prominent - and strikingly more grey ...
  06.18.09

• Sarychev Peak eruption update for 6/16/2009
  Matua Islands (also known as Matsuwa Island), home of Sarychev Peak. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands has been wreaking havoc on flights to and from Asia for the past few days (as many Eruptions readers can attest). You can see the latest VAAC (Volcano Ash Advisory Center) statement here that shows ash ...
  06.16.09

• Sarychev Peak eruption update for 6/15/2009
  Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands in 2007, the source of the large ash column currently disrupting transpacific air traffic. It seems that the eruption at Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands of Russia might be a lot bigger than it first seemed. I've gotten a couple reports of flights to Tokyo from North America being ...
  06.15.09

• Eruption at Sarychev Peak threatening air traffic
  Sarychev Peak in Russia erupting on June 14, 2009. Image courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory. The transpacific air routes over the Aleutians, the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands are a prime location for the threat of ash to commercial aviation. Many of these volcanoes, especially on the western side of the Pacific Ocean are ...
  06.14.09

• June 9, 1928: Across the Vast Pacific, by Air
  06.09.09

• Active volcanism in the Kuril Islands
  Image courtesy of KVERT, taken by L. Kotenko on Marhc 18, 2009. To me, one volcanic arc about which I wish I knew more is the Kuril-Kamchatka arc. I'm well aware of how active it is, with giants composite volcanoes like Bezymianny, Koryak, Klyuchevskoi and many, many others. This arc of volcanoes, although in a sparsely ...
  04.08.09

• Impressive eruption at Llaima slowing down
  Llaima erupting at night in April 2009. Brief update for those of you following the somewhat spectacular eruption (above and below) going on at Llaima in Chile. The latest reports indicate the eruption is waning (in spanish) with less ash and explosions (in spanish) being produced. However, ONEMI, the Chilean Emergency Office, continues to keep the ...
  04.07.09

• Too many tourists in Tonga
  Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai, taken in late March 2009 Redoubt did the tried-and-true American trick of shoving news of volcanoes in other parts of the world off the news pages, but shockingly, these international volcanoes continued to erupt. Remember that volcano in Tonga? Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'aapi? Still erupting, weeks after the volcano was first spotted. ...
  04.03.09

• Redoubt Weekend Roundup for 3/30/2009
  Image courtesy of AVO/USGS by Tricia Joy Sadler. Taken 3/28/2009 at 3:29 PM Redoubt did not stray from its pattern of explosive eruptions producing >20,000 foot / 10,000 meter ash columns over the weekend. However, what did change was the wind, and because of that, Anchorage began to feel the effects of the volcano. Ash prompted ...
  03.30.09

• Redoubt from space and from the ground
  Image courtesy of AVO/USGS by Game McGimsey Following the provided script, Redoubt erupted again last night, producing a 32,000 foot / 10,000 meter ash column that prompted a new ash fall warning for the Kenai Peninsula area. Thus far, though, there have been few reports of major damage being caused by the ash fall. Alaska Air ...
  03.27.09

• Redoubt Weekend Open Thread
  Image courtesy of AVO/USGS by Ron Beck. Shows an ash plume from Redoubt (tan) on March 26 from a Landsat 5 satellite. I'll be "off the grid" for the weekend at a wedding, so I thought I'd leave this open for any Redoubt news Eruptions readers hear over the weekend. Feel free to leave comments about ...
  03.27.09

• Largest eruption so far at Redoubt
  Image courtesy of AVO/USGS, taken 3/23/09 I don't have many details, but the largest eruption so far in this eruptive stage at Redoubt occurred at 9:24 AM (Alaska Time), producing a 65,000 foot / 20,000 meter ash column! Yes, you read that right, a 20-km ash column! This is by far the largest ash column so ...
  03.26.09

• Redoubt status returned to Orange
  Image courtesy of AVO/USGS. Taken by Cyrus Read Based on the current levels of seismicity over the past 36 hours, AVO has returned Redoubt to Orange/Watch status from Red/Warning. This doesn't mean that the eruption is over, just that things have settled down a bit. Flights to and from Anchorage have resumed as well. You can ...
  03.25.09

• New images from the Redoubt Eruption
  Image courtesy of AVO/USGS AVO has posted a series of images taken around Redoubt and around the Cook Inlet since the new eruptions started the night of March 22nd. You can begin to see the extent of the ash fall, what the explosions have done to the Drift Glacier and the new deposits in the Drift ...
  03.24.09