Scientists at a private company called the Scuderi Group announce the development of an innovative type of engine, that allows for an increased fuel efficiency when compared to normal engines. The main way this is done is by storing compressed air, the experts who developed the motor say. When compared to an engine c... |
24 January 2011
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Officials at the American space agency announce that experts at the John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC), in Mississippi, have conducted a new rocket engine test yesterday, November 10, in order to assess the performances of a private booster engine developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC).The liquid-fuel AJ26 e... |
11 November 2010
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With the successful testing of the X-51A Waverider aircraft, the United States Air Force (USAF) is currently trembling in anticipation of the future of warfare. Analysts believe that the recent test flight, which saw that craft break down the world record for the longest hypersonic flight, will allow engineers a soli... |
17 June 2010
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Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) announce the development of a new type of gasoline engine that they say could revolutionize the way automakers design and build their cars. The innovation consists of engine blocs that are extremely efficient in preserving fuel, and thus reducing consumption and... |
3 June 2010
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According to a group of researchers, it may be that replacing the expensive platinum catalyst currently used in diesel engines to reduce exhaust fumes would lead to cheaper and more efficient engines. That is to say, the platinum catalyst, which is regularly used in filters, could make way for a new generation of mat... |
26 March 2010
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As the old adagio goes, if you can't beat them, join them. This is precisely what a new start-up has done in the United States, when it took the standard fuel injection system used in gasoline engines, and began working on it. The result was a system that can easily improve fuel efficiency by as much as 50 perce... |
8 March 2010
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Scientists from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen, in Germany, announce the development of a new type of diesel engine, which not only emits only trace amounts of dangerous chemicals, but can also be used to collect samples from the combustion chamber while the engine is still running. The newly developed diesel e... |
7 December 2009
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Comparing the dimensions of an intercontinental airliner against those of a small bird may not yield results that will back up the conclusions that several commissions investigating plane crashes came to, namely that stray birds or flocks managed to destroy propellers and cause significant damage to the engines, forc... |
16 January 2009
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There are very few human beings that haven't, at least once, thought about going to space and exploring the stars. The fact that they hang over our heads every night, and some of them blink, always makes us wonder what's beyond them, and what answers await us at the end of the known Universe. “If the ... |
15 January 2009
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It's a bleak day for personal privacy and security, I think. Vitalas, an European Commission-funded project has come up with a way to link location data, by recognizing common objects in an image. The EU agency for network and information security, Enisa, has recently reported that "while face recognition allows... |
12 December 2007
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Some people just have no idea what they are doing. Here we go again - this is another case of overzealous security that can seriously end up in hurting the ones who should be protected! General Motors is going to come up with a system to make car thefts history at least in their opinion! The technology is called Sto... |
11 October 2007
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