Jul

1

Flying Cars May Use Innovative Battery Packs Soon

July 1, 2021 | Leave a Comment

A Penn State research team is exploring the requirements for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles and designing and testing potential battery power sources. So far, jet packs, robot maids and flying cars were all promised for the 21st century. Chao-Yang Wang, holder of the William E. Diefender Chair of Mechanical Engineering and director […]

Mar

25

Perhaps Faster Than Light Speed Travel Will Be Possible

March 25, 2021 | 2 Comments

If travel to distant stars within an individual’s lifetime is going to be possible, a means of faster-than-light propulsion will have to be found. So far, even recent research about faster-than-light transport based on Einstein’s theory of general relativity would require vast amounts of hypothetical particles and states of matter that have ‘exotic’ physical properties […]

Dec

9

Snowstorm a New Personal Flying Machine

December 9, 2015 | Leave a Comment

A team of eight engineering students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully built Singapore’s first personal flying machine, named Snowstorm. Comprising an intricate design of motors, propellers and inflated landing gear set within a hexagonal frame, Snowstorm is an electric-powered aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing that can be controlled by […]

Aug

13

Trucks Trains or Pipelines

August 13, 2013 | 7 Comments

The U.S. is the most fully developed petroleum transport nation – we have crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel and jet fuel in transit 24/7/365 – mostly in pipelines.  Lives lost are rare and environmental damage while awful at leak locations is a tiny amount of the total product moved. The horrible truth, and […]

Mar

18

Super Efficient Truck From Improved Aerodynamics and Engine

March 18, 2013 | 2 Comments

Cummins Inc. and Peterbilt Motors Company have released their test results showing their demonstration SuperTruck tractor-trailer achieved a 54% increase in fuel economy.  Cummins, the prime contractor leading one of four vertical teams under the Department of Energy’s SuperTruck project shows nearly 10 mpg US (23.5 l/100 km) under real world driving conditions. The SuperTruck […]

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