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Why isn't Methane used instead of gasoline for our major automotive fuel?
Henry Ford planned on using alcohol for his Model- T s. Rudolph Diesel planned to use peanut oil for his diesel engine. Instead, because about the same time period some crud e was discovered in Pennsylvania and they needed some way to use it. What better way than to burn it up in the newly developed automobile engine. Methane is abundant without limit, cleaner, and doesn't require foreign sources. Oil has become so expensive it impacts our economy in a major way.
6 AnswersAlternative Fuel Vehicles9 years agoWhy isn't it common knowledge that speech consists of two distinct languages?
One language is millions of years old and comes from the vocal chords of all animals. The other language is a mere one hundred thousand years old. The act of putting the two languages together was the most monumental achievement ever conceived, since it created what we now classify ourselves as the "human being". The two language sound literally created a "verbal book".
2 AnswersLanguages9 years agoWhy aren't tiles laid abutting each other, rather than spaced with grout filing the empty spaces?
It seems to me putting the tiles next to each other with no spacing is just as pleasing to the eye as spacing them on all sides. There must be a reason for the spacing but I can't come up with it..
4 AnswersDecorating & Remodeling9 years agoElectronic circuitry to eliminate vowel tones.?
Speech consists of two separate languages, vowels and consonants. I wish to delete the vowels.
5 AnswersEngineering9 years agoIf one does an integration for the value for acceleration, what would the result be?
Acceleration has a value of 32 feet per second, per second. If one integrates that, what would that number be, X feet per second, a velocity? How to get the weight of atmosphere? Is the answer 14.7 pounds per square inch? Straighten out my confused thinking.
2 AnswersPhysics10 years agoIn a hybrid vehicle like the Toyota Prius, couldn't the electric motor be used to replace the transmission?
Couldn't the electric motor part of the hybrid vehicle be used strictly for getting up to speed before connecting to the gasoline engine. The gas engine might then be run at a constant speed with greater gas engine efficiency. Maybe even not have a conventional transmission system at all, but use the electric motor in its place.
5 AnswersToyota1 decade agoWho will build a "consonants only" audio amplifier?
When a person is hard of hearing, it's only the consonants that can't be heard. And that is because the consonants are one thousandth as loud as the vowels can be. A person can only understand when both parts of speech are heard.
The first to built the "consonants only audio amplifier" is likely assured of great wealth. So try designing and building a prototype. Let's design and manufacture it in the USA so that great new employment will occur and help cure this long duration underemployment problem.
4 AnswersEngineering1 decade agoCould a computer be programmed to recognize vowels and consonants in real time?
If a computer can be programmed to recognize vowels and consonants, then each could be acted on independent of one another and adjusted for maximum intelligibility.
1 AnswerOther - Computers1 decade agoHow to build an audio amplifier so as to knock out all sinusoidal frequencies,?
The audio amplifier should knock out (attenuate) all sinusoidal frequencies and allow everything else to be amplified?
3 AnswersEngineering1 decade agohow to design an amplifier that knocks out all the tones and leaves only consonants?
Could Fourier Transforms FT s do the trick? How is that done?
2 AnswersEngineering1 decade agoHow can I determine if my idea has sufficient intellectual property value to be protected?
My idea explains an idea of something formed over many Millenium. In its present application it is used erroneously with results that are poor. My idea corrects this wrong conclusion. I don't wish to use a lawyer to find out.
4 AnswersLaw & Ethics1 decade agoIf I can modify speech to make it more understandable, can it be patented?
Using existing electronic components, I can modify speech so it is more easily understood, like a speaker who is trained in elocution, can it then be patented?
3 AnswersEngineering1 decade agowho will program an EPROM for me?
I wish to take the output of a A to D converter and feed it to an EPROM. Who will program the EPROM for me?
1 AnswerEngineering1 decade agohow can the output of a A to D converter be modified?
Instead of the normal A to D output, that is, converting the analog signal to digital values, how could I modify the output to different values?
2 AnswersEngineering1 decade agoOn an 8 bit ADC, does the number 256 represent the maximum signal input level? Therefore the max sound volume?
What I am trying to ask is this; is there a correspondence of sound volume (decibels) and the bit numbers. e.g. might the number 256 correspond to some maximum sound volume like 40 dBs?
3 AnswersEngineering1 decade ago