Micah Wright

Aug 30, 2024 | pubs.usgs.gov | Micah Wright |Karen M. Thorne |Kevin J. Buffington |Jill Beckmann

First posted August 30, 2024 The 2018 Carr Fire burned more than 90 percent of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, with much of the park burning at high severity. California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests are not well adapted to large, high-severity fires, and forest recovery after these events may be problematic.

May 6, 2024 | enginelabs.com | Micah Wright

When Bugatti released a news statement in the summer of 2022, hailing the 8.0-liter W16 engine as “the last of its kind,” the majority of us threw our hands in the air. That’s it. Time for smaller displacement turbo engines and a whole lot of electric mumbo-jumbo.By that point, the Bugatti W16 had been around for almost 20 years, with Veyron buyers receiving the first engine all the way back in 2005.

May 1, 2024 | enginelabs.com | Micah Wright

All you young ‘uns clean the wax out of your skulls and listen up because today we are digging into the OG treasure chest today to talk about one of the greatestautomotive engineers of all time: Harry Miller. The Engine Builder Hall of Fame said it best when they referred to Miller as “…one of the most influential and revolutionary figures in the early days of American motorsports.” And today we’re here to explain why this bold claim is so accurate.

Apr 24, 2024 | enginelabs.com | Micah Wright

It seems like electric motors are coming for damn near every segment now, including watercraft. Take the recent acquisition of German electric boat motor manufacturer,Torqeedo, by Yamaha for instance, as that is arguably one of the most blatant tell-tale signs that the end is nigh for all forms of the internal combustion engine. Or is it? Earlier this year, Yamaha Motor unveiled an outboard engine prototype at the 2024 Miami International Boat Show that was powered purely by hydrogen.

Apr 18, 2024 | fordmuscle.com | Micah Wright

Call it a hunch, but February 27th, 2024 has a chance of going down in history as a day that changed the trajectory of Ford Motor Company‘s internal combustion creativity forever. Not on a large scale mind you, but on a minuscule PCV grade. It was on this day that Ford filed a patent that focused on repurposing Positive Crankcase Ventilation (PCV) pressure and blow-by in the hopes of turning it into a form of “priming” prior to routine combustion.