Backfire

Backfire stands for:

• a rebound effect (economy) over 100%, i.e. increasing energy consumption through better technology, which should actually save energy overall
• a misfire in the intake tract of internal combustion engines
• a film based on Edgar Wallace from 1962, see Backfire (1962)
• a 1988 film drama; see Final Night - The Last Night
• the NATO code name of the Tupolev Tu-22M aircraft
• Version 10.03 of the firmware OpenWrt
• Backfire (band) , a hardcore band from Maastrich
• Operation Backfire , Allied missile tests, 1945

See also

• Backfire effect

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