I doubt it amounts to much….

But Mazda claims they have developed the HCCI engine to a workable unit.

We shall see. It has been around for years. A diesel like engine that uses gasoline instead. The HCCI ( homogeneous charge compression ignition) engine has been a dream for many years. Sadly, it has failed even when attempted by Toyota and Honda….

And I predict now that it will NEVER meet emissions specs for the US unless someone comes to their senses at the EPA. They won’t budge on NOX, and that is what makes diesels fail. (And modern diesels are cleaner in almost every respect than gasoline, and provide better than 35% mileage gains over gasoline, leaving even fewer of those pesky carbon compounds that (supposedly) cause (mythical) glowball warmenating).

But hey, it is a nice dream, if the EPA will let it pass and won’t pull a Volkswagen or a Dodge on them…..

The State:

Go HERE. Follow the link(s).

This is why I hate the idea of STATE. The idea that the State is always the arbiter of my (and your) fate. Why I don’t trust the State. It is composed of people. People are imperfect. Sometimes they LIE in order to do the State’s work. .

And the State protects it’s minions.

Even to the Absurd. 

5 years ago

Curiosity touched down on Mars….

And has been sending data back ever since.

5 years.

on a planned 2 year lifetime and mission.

For once, we got our money’s worth from a Government project. (and NASA, at that!).

Climate data changes:

It would seem that there is a nefarious plot to make the climate data (in particular temperature data) look more like the Glowball Warming model than reality does.

In particular, it is reported that the temperature data in Australia is being manipulated by either raising the recorded high (and especially lows) or erasing the lowest of the lows altogether, leaving a temperature record that shows (what else?) a planet that is ever hotter….Even though the truth is just the opposite. Changing the data at the source of the measurement….

But the fact is that there isn’t any money to be made telling everyone “Oops, our bad, nothing to see here, all is well….There is no Glowball Warmenating, we aren’t all gonna die this year, and the earth won’t flood”. So these Climate “scientists” have to make something up to get further funding.

In other words, there is no climate change, so they gotta lie.

Anyone surprised?

Someone tell Borepatch.