Tag: engine

The Most Powerful Diesel Engine in the World

Posted by Nexus – 10/03/2010

[via people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb]

The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine is the most powerful and most efficient prime-mover in the world today. The Aioi Works of Japan’s Diesel United, Ltd built the first engines and is where some of these pictures were taken.

It is available in 6 through 14 cylinder versions, all are inline engines. These engines were designed primarily for very large container ships. Ship owners like a single engine/single propeller design and the new generation of larger container ships needed a bigger engine to propel them.

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Human-flesh search engines in China: China’s Cyberposse

Posted by Nexus – 07/03/2010

[via nytimes.com]

The short video made its way around China’s Web in early 2006, passed on through file sharing and recommended in chat rooms. It opens with a middle-aged Asian woman dressed in a leopard-print blouse, knee-length black skirt, stockings and silver stilettos standing next to a riverbank. She smiles, holding a small brown and white kitten in her hands. She gently places the cat on the tiled pavement and proceeds to stomp it to death with the sharp point of her high heel.

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Pro-Iran hackers hit China search engine

Posted by Nexus – 13/01/2010

[via news.yahoo.com]

A man uses a laptop computer at a wireless cafe in Beijing. China's top search engine Baidu has been hacked in what state media said was an attack by a pro-Iranian government group that replaced the usual home page with an Iranian flag.

China’s top search engine Baidu was hacked Tuesday in what state media said was an attack by a pro-Iranian government group that replaced the usual home page with an Iranian flag.

Internet users trying to access the site found a message saying “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army”, the People’s Daily reported on its website.

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