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Most of the energy in a gallon of gasoline is wasted as heat, friction, and overcoming aerodynamic losses. No carburetor in the world will recover any of that.
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But... the Tornado/Vortex devices don't work. There may be some vehicles with truly lousy intake design where they *might* make a measurable difference but I can state for a fact that they don't do diddly on a Toyota Tacoma (no, I didn't buy one, but a bunch of guys on a Toyota board did and the universal result was bupkus).
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EW, point taken, a tornado type device quite possibly could help earlier vehicles with primitive carbs and intake design.
It's funny, in the description of the Pogue carburetor it said that fuel is atomized to eliminate droplets, in effect changing the liquid fuel to a dry state. And we all know what is left behind when gasoline evaporates to a dry state.
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Our house is sided with HardiPlank and Hardie Shingle siding. The shingles are made in California and the plank was made in some other state. We wanted to buy the siding pre-primed. That wasn't a problem for the plank siding, but since the shingles were made in California, and since that plant didn't have enough pollution control credits, we had to buy them unprimed and send them out to a local company to have them primed. The CARB is nuts. If they go to strictly water based paints I hope all the auto manufacturers close their California plants. Serves 'em right.
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Please take no offense. I grew up reading Smokey Yunick articles in Popular Science and other magazines, and have a heck a lot of respect for the guy, but IMO if he wrote the article you refer to it must have been published in the April edition as a joke. My opinion of hybrids is pretty low too, there is probably no such thing as lossless conversion from one form of energy to another, so they must inherently lose efficiency (and they are needlessly complex to boot). An all-electric car with regenerative braking would trump a gas-electric hybrid but my money would be spent on a small diesel. A VW TDI (or their european gasoline compression-ignition engine) already meet or beat hybrids, with far less complexity.
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