article thumbnail

Axial Vector and Kirloskar Oil Engines Forming JV for Mass Production of Axial-Type Engines

Green Car Congress

The Axial Vector Engine is an axial-type engine that uses a sinusoidal cam rather than a crankshaft to convert the linear motion of the opposed pistons into rotational motion in the drive shaft. Intake and exhaust valves open and close by a patent-pending method of rotating cam and trunions. engine and 100 kW generator—in 2009.

Engine 210
article thumbnail

Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

Green Car Congress

Cotton is typically grown in arid regions converted to farmland; in Uzbekistan, for example, which is one of the world’s largest exporters of cotton, the extraction of water from rivers that supply the Aral Sea is a key contributor to its deterioration and desertification. Metals and Mining.

Water 150
article thumbnail

My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Unfortunately no rice was available, but I enjoyed the dal-roti. Enterprising hunters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were the possible cause for a change in migration routes. Unlike Bharatpur’s marriage palaces, this was actually the genuine stuff, an old palace converted into a hotel. There is no heating at most places.

Water 52