Ahh, CNN you could have asked us first...

"While a standard engine is powered by a belt connected to the crankshaft, a turbo engine runs on its own exhaust steam, making it more energy efficient."

Really?

And it's nice to know where else you might find these magical steam powered engines...

"But once in full flight, they maintain speed well, and today you'll often find turbo engines used in trains, trucks and construction equipment."

While it's not an automotive site, you'd think they'd make at least a token attempt to get the technicals right. As Jalopnik rightly said, "It'd be like writing an article about an election that said "While a standard election is decided by court decisions from individual citizen legislatures, a runoff election leverages polling data from the most recent census." Sure, those are real words, but they make zero sense."

Chris_V wrote: "While a standard engine is powered by a belt connected to the crankshaft, a turbo engine runs on its own exhaust steam, making it more energy efficient." Really? And it's nice to know where else you might find these magical steam powered engines... "But once in full flight, they maintain speed well, and today you'll often find turbo engines used in trains, trucks and construction equipment." While it's not an automotive site, you'd think they'd make at least a token attempt to get the technicals right. As Jalopnik rightly said, "It'd be like writing an article about an election that said "While a standard election is decided by court decisions from individual citizen legislatures, a runoff election leverages polling data from the most recent census." Sure, those are real words, but they make zero sense."

Jalopnik.
Good automotive journalism.

Pick one.

There were some other doozies in there as well, as discussed previously.

ransom wrote: There were some other doozies in there as well, as discussed previously.

This is why we need a real search function instead of trying to game the system with a google search.

If a standard engine is powered by a belt attached to it's crankshaft...where is the belt getting the power from? Laws of Thermodynamics and all that...

Methinks I need to stock up on some of these magic powered belts.

volvoclearinghouse wrote: If a standard engine is powered by a belt attached to it's crankshaft...where is the belt getting the power from?

lol:

I enjoy how they ninja edited the piece.

In reply to 93EXCivic:

Ha!

CNN's website said: Editor's note: An earlier version of this article contained a number of inaccuracies, for which we apologise. Christina Macfarlane and Rachel Wood, who prepared the television story, were in no way responsible for those inaccuracies. You can watch their report at the top of this article.

4cylndrfury wrote:

CNN's website said: Editor's note: An earlier version of this article contained a number of inaccuracies, for which we apologise. Christina Macfarlane and Rachel Wood, who prepared the television story, were in no way responsible for those inaccuracies. You can watch their report at the top of this article.

if i close my eyes and think of what it said, i see a comparison of a belt-driven blower versus a turbocharger, and i think they missed the letter "r" in the word "stream".

CNN, Fox News, and the other 24/7 news stations have been firing all their investigative journalists and people who are journalists in general, all they do is report on whats on their wire but they don't know anything about the subjects.

Hilariously enough is that the BBC and Al Jazeera has been hiring all these people. So I guess if you want real news you need to read foreign now.

I find it unnerving and odd that Al Jazeera is advertising on NPR.

In reply to volvoclearinghouse:

I assume that's because of their name? Pretty good news agency to be honest.

In reply to yamaha:

The problem is that I know very little about them, other than their name, and the fact that they seem to hail from a suspicious area of the world. I know that sounds xenophobic, but realize I'm not closed-minded about them, it's just that they are so new (to me, anyway) that I simply don't have any knowledge about them. I generally listen to the left end of the radio dial, and my political views tend towards the Libertarian, but I am prone to the occassional nationalistic streak, I admit.

Of course, it does seem very weird that a news agency would advertise on another news agency, sort of like Ford buying ad space on a Chevrolet.

Al Jazeera seemed alright when events have happened over the last 2 decades. Being as we've just berkeleyed E36 M3 up in their neck of the world lately, most of the day or night one coverage on all other stations was Al Jazeera. Granted I cannot read arabic, I only know what the other agencies "translated", and none of it seemed off.

AngryCorvair wrote: if i close my eyes and think of what it said, i see a comparison of a belt-driven blower versus a turbocharger, and i think they missed the letter "r" in the word "stream".

It looked like they ran some of the automotive words through a thesaurus. "Exhaust gasses" became "exhaust steam" etc.

This was the original sentence before it was creatively edited:

"While a supercharger is powered by a belt connected to the crankshaft, a turbocharger runs on the engine's own exhaust stream, making it more energy efficient."

I've had the same thing happen to me. In the second issue ever of AutoX Magazine, I wrote:

"The top 5 and 8 of the top 10 were RX-7's..."

This was edited to say "Numbers 5 and 8 were RX-7's..."

Sorry Margie, but I never forgot that.

volvoclearinghouse wrote: In reply to yamaha: The problem is that I know very little about them, other than their name, and the fact that they seem to hail from a suspicious area of the world. I know that sounds xenophobic, but realize I'm not closed-minded about them, it's just that they are so new (to me, anyway) that I simply don't have any knowledge about them. I generally listen to the left end of the radio dial, and my political views tend towards the Libertarian, but I am prone to the occassional nationalistic streak, I admit. Of course, it does seem very weird that a news agency would advertise on another news agency, sort of like Ford buying ad space on a Chevrolet.

i see Al Jazeera ads on FoxNews..

volvoclearinghouse wrote: I find it unnerving and odd that Al Jazeera is advertising on NPR.

Why? They'll be guest-hosting "A Prairie Home Companion" any time now...