The Formaldehyde Standards for Composite Wood Products Act (S.1660) passed both houses of US Congress with bipartisan support and was signed into law July 7.
Woodshop News explains what this means for wood products in America:
[The Act] amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to make the formaldehyde emission standard contained in the California Code of Regulations (relating to an airborne toxic control measure to reduce formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products, as in effect on July 28, 2009) applicable to hardwood plywood, medium-density fiberboard and particleboard sold, supplied, offered for sale, or manufactured in the United States, with listed exemptions, including for hardboard, structural plywood, wood packaging and composite wood products used inside new vehicles, railcars, boats, aerospace craft or aircraft.
Three years of aerodynamics research has created the Bloodhound supersonic car design, unveiled recently at Farnborough:
It looks just like The Blue Flame to me, which set the land speed record in 1970.
The Blue Flame reached 1014.513 km/h (630.388 mph), a record that lasted 27 years.
This post might reveal my lack of expertise in rocket cars, I realize, but I had hoped for a much more radical design than just a rocket with wheels. The Thrust2 and ThrustSSC broke The Blue Flame record but they also did it with new designs. The Thrust2 looked like the BatMobile. The ThrustSSC looked like an F-4 fighter jet without wings, perhaps because that is what it was.
When I say I want to see a more radical design I really wonder about efficiency. How much fuel is used to reach these speeds? What would the records look like if they had to account for input? I have similar questions about output in terms of emissions and air quality.
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