Adam Clare

Hydristor: Believe the Hype?

Inventor Thomas Kasmer has made a neat little device called the Hydristor, which, according to him, has the potential to change the world.

The Hydristor belongs in your car, it basically replaces the transmission. In all transmissions energy is lost, a automatic car has worse mileage than a manual car because an automatic transmission consumes more power. What makes the Hydristor more efficent is how it transfers the power to the drive train and how it absorbs power from braking forces that can later be used to power the vehicle.

The heavier the vehicle the more power the Hydristor can get from braking. As a result the feul efficency of all vehicals can improve, espically heavier vehicles like SUVs.

“In theory, it should work. The biggest advantage of his system is that it’s very small and compact. I don’t think I’ve seen a variable transmission as small and as simple as this.” This quote is from a good article on the Hydristor at PressConnects.com

Russian Sub Crew Rescued

The Russian mini-submarine that was trapped in a fishing net 190 meters below the Pacific has now been rescued. All members of the seven member crew are alive.

A British robotic submarine cut the Russian mini-sub free of the fishnet that it was stuck in. Moscow had asked for help from America, Britian, and Japan. All three responded quickly with the British able to airlift their robotic sub to a nearby Russian naval base the fastest. From the base a Russian boat took the British sub out to sea.

The Bomb and the Future

Today is the 60th anniversary of the Enola Gay gayly dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It seems to me that on many front pages of newspapers today this anniversary is mentioned. I think that looking at this (arguably useless) bomb-dropping is a good thing for people to confront.

We all know that war will result in death of both soldiers and civilians. Some people justify the “collateral damage” as acceptable because winning the war is more important than some lost lives on the side. By looking at the dropping of the atomic bomb we are forced to question if that stance is appropriate or even morally correct. In this regard it is a good thing that we look at the past in order to question what is happening today.

Iran is fighting for its right to make nuclear weapons, the current diplomatic channels have failed. It must be acknowledged that the people of Iran want the bomb. So what better time than now to remind people of the incredible damage that can be unleashed by such powerful weapons. On the other hand, talks with North Korea about their nuclear weapons program are continuing.

People who witnessed the first atomic bomb drop are hoping that no one else has to experience such devastation. Today, all over the world, people are demanding a safer human civilization, including Londoners.

War is never a good thing. Hopefully by looking at the mistakes of the past we can look at the mistakes we’ve made (or making) now and realize the connection. We all know that an eye for an eye makes us both blind; the picture of the binoculars can be found at a photo gallery on Hiroshima.

Dead Smokers?

The Mail & Guardian is reporting that a study by Curtin University in Western Australia suggests that smokers won’t exists by 2030. That is, of course, using stats that are available today to predict the future. There will be no women smokers in Australia in the year 2029 with males slow to give up the habit by a full year.

Australia currently has the lowest smoking rates in the industrialized world with 17.4% of the population smoking.

Amazing Plane Crash

Toronto’s Pearson International Airport witnessed a plane crash yesterday, and believe it or not good news can be found in this.

Every passenger and crew member survived the crash!! This is the first time I’ve heard of a jetliner crashing and exploding into a fireball in which all persons aboard came out alive.

Editor’s note: This is also the first entry into our newest category Spin da News. This new category will explore the positive side of things in the news that are normally deemed to be negative.