TTXGP anyone?

Wow, at 95 rwbhp my CBR600 is something really special then.

 

I'd like to know where they found this Harley with the 'macho roar'.

Whole thing's a ginge anyway - recall the discussion here last year
about leccy bikes and the video links discovered to various Yankee
backyard dabblers who are doing impressive things with golf cart /pallet
truck motors and NiMH /Lithium batteries.

http://hitorqueelectric.com/

http://electricmotorcycles.net/wordpress/

http://www.electricmotorsport.com/PARTS/parts.htm

Of course, unless it's being done by somebody in academia, it's not
happening.

 

Always stuck me as incredibly unfair that Arts grads didn't need to know
anything about science, math or engineering because it was grubby. But
Science, math and engineering grads had to know about literature and the
arts to be "rounded" individuals.

 

Sounds fine to me.

Anyone who knows nothing about literature and the arts is a philistine.

 

It looks 'normal':
http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-motorcycles-?20000-ttx01-superbike-for-a-quiet-zero-emission-gp/

I've said it before: everything I have read in the press on subjects I
am well versed on that the average chap isn't (unions, railways etc.)
always contain fundamental inaccuracies.

I assume reporting on any other subject is also as flawed.

 

And anyone who knows about literature and the arts but knows nothing
about natural philosophy and the sciences is also a philistine.

 

And that'd be a bad thing why, exactly?

 

^
That should be a £ sign...

One recent article headlined Dawn as a "Hadron Lecturer".

Me too.

--
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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Everybody benefits from a rounded education.

 

Hi there

A G50 or Manx takes around 7l. That's how far my experience reaches.

I think I need to check some energy-density calcs.
Might be interesting. But given the fact that an electric motor has far
better efficiency 1 lap should not be out range!

Bye,
Tilmann

 

Hi there

Now correctly calculated: My G50 took around 5 to 5,5l. But far slower
than 100mph. That's how far my experience reaches.

Might be interesting. But given the fact that an electric motor has far
better efficiency 1 lap should not be out range!

Bye,
Tilmann

 

I've seen several worrying references to the Large Hardon Collider.

 

They're using the same motors as the one in the Guardian article
(though it claims 43 bhp/motor and the best I can see on the manufacturer's
web page is around 24 kW/32 bhp). They apparently have efficiencies >90%
over most of the power range. That's still a few bar-heaters' worth of heat
to shed per motor, though.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

There is not a simple comparison between petrol and electric motors.
An electric motor can produce its max rated power across almost its
entire rev range whereas a petrol engine can only produce max power
at around max rpm.
A series wound DC motor can produce enormous torque at zero rpm, making
it a somewhat dangerous beast.

 

<flicks vees, throws hammer>

 

Says the bloke who closely resembles the old road safety squirrel.

 

You bastard.

You've soiled one of my childhood heros.

 

That's just a restatement of your previous view. Are you unable, or
just unwilling, to attempt to justify it?

 

Worse, they get into positions of power and make decisions on, say,
energy policy, while knowing worse than nothing about how it all
works. And as for New Age, handy-wavy homoeopathy, shite ...

 

There seems to be a quite scary amount of anti-science, tree-hugging,
religion motivated, indoctrinated, politically motivated, denial bollox
around this millenium. Anyone would think the age of enlightenment had
never happened.

Refuse to accept the scientific method? Well no SUV, TV or antibiotics
for you, then.