LCROSS on the American LRO Mission conducted an exciting experiment by analysing the material ejected as a plume from an artificial crater created by impacting a ~2.5 ton object (a burnt out engine) in Cabeus crater near the south pole of the Moon.
"Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"—Mr Bush's impromptu praise for the incompetent head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency came to symbolise the second Bush term as much as his "bullhorn moment"—his spontaneous address to New Yorkers from the top of a burnt-out fire engine at Ground Zero after the September 11th attacks—symbolised the first.
In a two-stroke engine, the burnt gas is exhausted from the cylinder primarily by the pressure difference between it and atmosphere, rather than by the motion of the piston.
Traces of the railway can still be seen, including a cast iron pole that supported held the overhead wire, the remains of the engine shed (burnt down in 2004), and a short section of track.
I burnt, and burnt, and burnt.
Cars deal a double blow to the environment, as they not only omit nasty CO2s, but the oil burnt up in their engines is a precious finite fuel source.
In Haryana, farmers with electricity spent 25% of their incomes on it and on repairing burnt-out pump-engines; those without electricity spent 31% of their incomes on diesel.
While compression ignition engines are efficient, burnt diesel produces greenhouse gases, noxious emissions, and particulate matter.
"Nah, we had a huge guy in my engine, he was always getting burnt, he was always in the way," he said.
"When we got off and saw the engine itself and the back casing burnt off, that was pretty scary.
