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Why not use the wasted heat energy of the internal combustion engine to make steam so it can run a steam turbine that is coupled to the transmission of your car? You would get the explosive force of the fuel along with the heat to do the work of moving the car at the same time.

Oh the sounds! Well there were no sounds that I remember. However, hurricane Andrew was another story. Very loud whisling sounds start of off low then as the wind gusted to over 200MPH it was houling just like in the movies. But to be there in the middle of that monster was a sight to behold and hear. They say 175 mph but that is when the last reading was taken at the Hurricane center in Coral Gables far north of the center when the wind guage flew off the top of the building.At the cutler ridge power plant It was much worse that that because we were in the north eye wall no wind guage though. At Turkey Point Nuclear Power plant they were in the South eye wall and the wind guage registered a wind gust of 225 mph and also at the Homestead airforce base which was obliterated. BTW the storm was elevated to a cat five ten years later but I say it was worse than that.

I used to live down there in the Cutler Ridge area and have seen many of them in Biscayne Bay.There are stories of them sucking up huge amounts of water and fish then dumping it all back into the ocean. Once I saw three of them right next to each other.

This article implies surface winds from AP.

The clouds are most likely methane and dark areas on the surface are "a reservoir" of liquid methane, said project scientist Shushiel Atreya.

A boom mike extended from the 705-pound Huygens probe has captured a loud, rushing sound. Mission scientists did not immediately say what it might mean, but instruments on the probe have detected winds of about 15 mph.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ … 649121.htm

A quick google revealed this: However, I seem to remember reading it on another link a few days ago!!

"A boom mike extended from Huygens after its landing revealed a loud, rushing sound. Mission scientists did not immediately say what it might mean.

  Titan is the first moon other than the Earth's to be explored. Scientists think its atmosphere is similar to that of the early Earth, and that studying it could provide clues to how life began on our planet.

  Yet there also was a setback after Huygens' seven-year trip through space: One of the probe's two data streams failed to download, meaning it will be some time before data on wind speed in Titan's atmosphere can be pieced together.

  But the sounds suggested blowing, and other instruments detected surface winds of about 25 kilometers per hour (16 miles per hour)."

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/arti … ...id=3947

No,I read an article where the winds were 15 MPH at the surface do to the sound of it passing the microphone.

Nope, they said the wind is blowing 15 MPH.

Not if they were salty.

The heat can vent through the crust like on the moon Io that orbits Jupiter and a liquid ocean can exist under the frozen ice like on Europa.

Well the surface ice could acting like a blanket of insulation.

I bet they find out that Titan is a moon of frozen water at the surface and liquid water below the surface. Hence the Mud. Tidal forces are keeping the interrior warm thus melting the ice. Decaying bacteria like in septic tanks emitting vast quantities of methane from below and venting through the ground into the frozen atmosphere. Any bets?

Well if the wind is constant then you  can use that energy to keep it warm.The windmill can be designed to be mechanically turned to the wind at all times like the ones from power companies.