News tagged with thermochemical engines


Achieving optimal efficiencies for nanoengines

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- "There's a lot of recent interest in understanding the functioning and optimal performance of small systems," Katja Lindenberg tells PhysOrg.com. Lindenberg is a scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Bi ...





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Search engines are source of learning

Technology / Internet

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.


Volkswagen hopes to turn out its first all-electric car in 2013

Volkswagen plans electric car in 2013: head

Technology / Energy

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

German auto maker Volkswagen hopes to turn out its first all-electric car in 2013, VW head Martin Winterkorn said Friday.


Era Ends for Space Shuttle Main Engine Test Program

Era Ends for Space Shuttle Main Engine Test Program

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With 520 seconds of shake, rattle and roar on July 29, NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center marked the end of an era for testing the space shuttle main engines that have powered the nation's ...


New combustion strategy accelerates hydrogen-engine development

New combustion strategy accelerates hydrogen-engine development

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Car manufacturers aspire to create hydrogen-powered vehicles that could one day allow energy-efficient, cost-effective travel that emits no greenhouse gases or other pollutants. To further ...


New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling

New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 6

One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer, but just the answer itself, says Weiyi Meng, ...


NASCAR goes green with hybrid pace car

Technology / Energy

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Until recently, about the only thing green about NASCAR was Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s paint scheme.


A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches

Technology / Other

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of Catalan researchers has developed a protocol to distort the user profile generated by Internet search engines, in such a way that they cannot save the searches undertaken by Internet users and thus ...


GE to sell security unit to United Technologies

Technology / Business

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US conglomerate General Electric on Thursday announced it would sell its security unit to United Technologies Corp. for 1.82 billion dollars.


Google to add maps of local findings to search results

Technology / Internet

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google has confirmed that it is going to start adding a map of local findings to search results for things like "pizza," "burger" and "dentist," something that Google watchers have been buzzing about for months.


An aircraft dubbed 'Solar Impulse', HB-SIA prototype, is rolled out of a hangar

Pioneering Swiss solar-powered plane rolled out

Technology / Energy

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Solar Impulse, the Swiss bid to make the first solar-powered flight around the world, rolled out its prototype on Friday at an airbase near Zurich and powered up the engines.



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