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Michigan State University Receives $2.5M ARPA-E Award to Build Wave Disc Engine/Generator for Series Hybrid Applications

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Wave rotor technology has been explored since 1906, although its first significant application was in 1940 by Brown Boveri Company (BBC, today ABB) which used it as a high pressure stage for a gas turbine locomotive engine. Mazda produced 150,000 Comprex diesel cars. Earlier wave rotor implementation were mainly axial flow. Click to enlarge.

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Mack Trucks introduces medium-duty Mack MD Electric; 2nd BEV in lineup

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Designed with the heavy-duty quality of its diesel-powered counterparts, the MD Electric is available in 4x2 configurations featuring a sharp wheel cut for enhanced maneuverability in tight urban settings. The MD Series cab design features a short bumper-to-back-of-cab (BBC) measurement of 103 inches, an industry best.

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Mitsubishi Motors to Premiere the European-spec i-MiEV at the 2010 Paris Motor Show

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Compared with the Japanese market version, the European-spec i-MiEV includes specific features such as: new design to the front and rear bumpers to meet EU regulations, re-arranged center stack in the instrument panel, improved interior comfort. gasoline vehicle.

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Video Friday: Automotive Artistry

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ABB Robotics has collaborated with two world-renowned artists, eight-year-old Indian child prodigy Advait Kolarkar and Dubai-based digital design collective Illusorr, to create the world’s first robot-painted art car. BBC Archive ] I find the sound effects in this video to be very confusing.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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A BBC article [ 9 ] upped the stakes on Thursday the 9 th with an article on carbon emissions that characterized “the lower target of 1.5 BBC: 15 December 2009. [ BBC, 10 December 2009. [ We’ve had our proposal [for an agreement that would bind all countries to emissions cuts in service of a 1.5º Not the last two days.”.

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Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air

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The drone’s bird-inspired legs adopted some key principles of biological design like the ability to store and release energy in tendon-like springs along with some flexible toes. EPFL Can This Design Scale Up to Larger Fixed-Wing Drones? There’s also swimming, perching, and snatching, all of which would require a new foot design.

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam. Any system designed for optical power transmission would likely use a laser—one with a tightly confined beam, such as a fiber laser. This word, a portmanteau of. Lighthouse Dev in 2012.

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