Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Schematic model of a wave disk engine, showing combustion and shockwaves within the channels. Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 Researchers from Michigan State University have been awarded $2.5 The Wave Disc Engine. Source: MSU. Click to enlarge. Norbert Müller.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The surge of interest in retrocomputing has led to folks once again swapping tips on how to write polished games using the 6502 assembly code, with new titles being released for the Atari , BBC Micro , and other machines. The Institute : What drew you into engineering? He was the system engineer, and I was the semiconductor engineer.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
student in chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 1945, he found the equipment there “remarkably primitive,” as he told an interviewer in later life. It ran on 110 volts DC supplied by a large army diesel engine that sat on the back of a truck parked outside. He also worked with BBC television to broadcast the Christmas Lectures.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
There is increasing evidence, however, that this primary engine of progress is beginning to sputter out. A 2019 analysis by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that training a very large deep learning system could potentially emit as much carbon dioxide as five cars over their full operational lifetimes.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Why pay $40K for a GM volt… which will look nothing more than a Malibu anyway and only get 40 miles before the gasoline engine kicks in. The fuel engine on the Volt is used to run the generator to recharge the battery when a trip exceeds 40 miles, and it’s rage on a full tank is around 400 miles. — Goodbye 2.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. “We have 10,000 engineers out there every day, installing and servicing boilers,&# he added. “There’s a relationship of trust already.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5.
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