Long intake runners, when used in conjunction with proper valve timing and duration, increase low to mid-range torque and make for good driving dynamics in the real world (part throttle operations). Plus, it helps with keeping good brake specific fuel consumption.
At this point, I think it more likely I could buy an Alantric from you than an Elio from EMI by 2018.
Lemme know if you need a helper--I'm right up the road in Phoenix.
We are working hard to bring production costs down. Here's something I build for:
http://us.sunpower.com/sites/sunpower/files/media-library/white-papers/wp-low-concentration-photovoltaic-system-performance-results-based-high-efficiency-back-contact.pdf
The inventing company and its suppliers...
I wish I could find the articles, but it has been said that if you actually PAID what a gallon of gasoline costs you at the pump, it would cost another $3,37/gallon for excess military (not the military that protects you and me...just the part that protects oil), + a few cents/gallon for direct...
Some comments in bold text above. I wish I had time to write more and explain better. I work in solar thermal industry as an engineer. My older brother works for a wind energy company as an engineer. Renewables technology is way further advanced and moving faster than you may suppose. And FWIW...
40% of a military budget that exceeds the next 22 largest militaries in the world is used to protect oil flow and transit through the Straights of Hormuz and Suez Canal.
40% of the world's oil transits through the SOH and Suez.
You may not call that a subsidy, but anyone who's being honest...
3 years ago I flew to Bavaria, Germany for business. I had known they were ahead of the curve on solar, but it's quite astonishing to see small villages that look like they are straight out of The Sound of Music with solar panels on the majority of rooftops. There are barns there that are over...
LOL, if only solar industry got 1% of what oil, gas, and coal industry have gotten through the years in direct and indirect subsidies! We'd be fully independent from our oil dealers for 25 years now.
LOL. Guilty as charged. I've got more experience transferring business acquistions, line startup, validation, continuous improvement and lean in my little finger than some of these grumpy jokers have done in a lifetime--and I'm supposed to furnish a resume for a bunch of Mr. Grumpy...
Are ya'll TRYING to miss the point? WilliamH basically called me an idiot who probably can't turn a wrench. I posted pictures of my factory, of which I am the Engineer (process, R&E NBD support, packaging, project manager, etcetera)
We turn wrenches. I turn wrenches, and more. Lots of people...