how does car

[cheungcheung]

How does a car convert diesel or petrol into energy?

I think it does not use the thermal turbine, does it ?

[admiral_ju00]

all in a word: explosion. - hence the term internal combustion engine

 

 

the gas(petrol) enters the cylinder through the valve with some air, the spark plug lets out a spark which causes the explosion in the cylinder which cause the piston to go down, causing more gas and air to get in through the valves, it's an endless loop, more or less, or at least it is, untill the engine craps out.

 

not sure about the diesel motors as they don't use spark plugs, but i believe glow rods??? but the process would be similar.

 

except that engines that use Petrol produce HP and engines that use Diesel produce Torque.

 

not sure on the turbine engines except that they take in lots of air which is then detonated, and from what it looks like, it works kind of like a wind mill, i believe.

 

[Tesseract]

You have a nice way with cars Admiral.

What kind of car do you have?

[admiral_ju00]

You have a nice way with cars Admiral.

What kind of car do you have?

 

thanks.

 

Z28 Camaro (my baby, she's more like a 2nd wife to me than simply a car)

 

thinking about getting it blown

 

{edit: bleh, damn typos }