MetaFilter posts tagged with engine

Open Rotor: Jet Engine with a Mohawk

...possums — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:18:37 -0800

Ultra-High Bypass (UHB) or "propfan" jet engines received attention in the late eighties as an economical and greener alternative to currrent GTF and ATF jet technologies. Adoption was partially prevented by industry fears that the external propellers would being seen as a step backwards. Evidently, General Electric and NASA are reinvesting in the technology.

Gang Bing

boo_radley — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:46:06 -0800

Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, goes beta. Cribbed from live.com, the layout for bing is... strangely familiar. Early reviews are mixed, with mixed results, mostly noting that the results less useful than google, especially when it comes to google.

Question the Answers? Answer the questions!

rollbiz — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:49:08 -0800

Wolfram Alpha is about to go live. Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine which may just change the way we think about search results.

Kinetic sculpture in glass

Upton O'Good — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:30:07 -0800

Bandhu Scott Dunham makes kinetic sculptures out of glass, including the steam engines that power some of them. He discusses how they are made in this podcast. For videos of these sculptures in action, you can view the collection in his gallery or watch some home videos.

Hot space bot uses stirling engine

Artw — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:24:57 -0800

NASA proposes using a Stirling cooler (essentially a Stirling engine in reverse) to keep a probe cool on the surface of Venus, which has had a tendency to melt or smash previous probes. The cooler would maintain a 25cm sphere within the probe at 200°C -- 100°C above the boiling point of water but sufficiently cool for a high-temperature microcontroller to operate. The waste heat radiators on the exterior of the sphere would reach the temperature of 500°C, 40°C above the the normal Venusian surface temperature.

The Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics

Upton O'Good — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:09:54 -0800

A Beginner's Guide to Aeronautics, a web-based textbook brought to you by the folks at NASA. A good place to start is the collection of guided tours. And if you just want to experiment a bit, there are simulators for kites, model rockets, engines, and baseballs, among other things.

Unique aircraft testing videos.

loquacious — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:24:07 -0800

Load testing a Boeing 777 wing. To failure! Also, engine testing, and maximum rejected takeoff.

Altered Productions NW Photograper's work

efalk — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 04:35:14 -0800

Photos before the show starts Yakutat AK; Portland, OR; San Diego, CA; L.A; Cleveland, OH.

Google emulates SMS gateway

SharQ — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:35:59 -0800

Google demos their SMS capability . Personally, I have used Google via Wap/GPRS on my mobile for years. Now, quick definitions, telephone numbers, and calculations are available via SMS, too. Great for geeks on the move - but will Joe Q Bloggs catch on?

zaba dabba doooo.

miss lynnster — Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:30:37 -0800

ZabaSearch.com, a stalker's new best friend! Is lack of privacy a good thing?

(Extra "bizarre points" in second link, noting the site's Heaven's Gate connection.)

JetEngine

srboisvert — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:13:02 -0800

Journey Through a Jet Engine [flash]

Pupna Fetch Engine

Metauser — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 02:40:01 -0800

Pupna is "the search engine puppy that retrieves EXACTLY what you are searching for (and absolutely nothing else!)" ;-)

This is a simple yet rather humorous search engine parody - are there any other good ones out there?

suck squeeze bang blow

jonah — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:22:43 -0800

suck squeeze bang blow (SFW)

The Future of the Car

Shanachie — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:01:34 -0800

Obsession: Mr. Singh’s Search for the Holy Grail American visionaries, cranks and con men have long sought the simple key to boosting the efficiency of the gasoline engine. Now a barefoot tinkerer in India believes he has unlocked the door. Is he for real?

Bugger to push-start.

five fresh fish — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:40:21 -0800

The Biggest Engine in the World. It's freakin' enormous. 100 000hp... yet more fuel efficient than your car. This contrasts with the smallest Wankel rotary, smallest diesels, and the smallest gas turbine engines.

Biz Stratergy MS uses

jayantk — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:17:54 -0800

Google: the God that failed? is the title of the article on MSN Slate. All of us know Microsoft is working on a new search engine technology. Till date everyone considers Google to be the Guru. MS obviously doesn't like that, so what it is doing? Well, the same thing it always does - to survive competition, eliminate it. The reasons being given by the article are pretty silly and more aimed at 'faming down' Google.

vrooooom

zeoslap — Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:31:35 -0800

Vroooom...fun with all manner of engines. Steam, Pistons, Gas Turbines, and last but by no means least Rockets.

SandeepKrishnamurthy — Wed, 22 May 2002 09:05:53 -0800

Kartoo, a New Search Engine. Do check out Kartoo. It basically creates a map linking sites related to a search. Interesting graphics, too. It seems like this would serve a different purpose than Google.

talos — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 05:52:31 -0800

How engines work. This isn't new but it's a great resource for the mechanically minded and the mechanically challanged as well. It includes animations and step by step descriptions of how most existing engines work, from Steam Locomotive to Jet Propulsion. Simple yet informative.

dhartung — Sat, 26 Jan 2002 14:42:39 -0800

Yahoo adds "premium" search features using technology from Northern Light (now divine). [more inside]

JParker — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:47:08 -0800

For the CEO who has everything... how about a 1985 Toyota MR2 powered by 3 turbojet engines? You start it with a leaf blower. Seller says it is "probably street legal except for this little 'excessive noise' issue". Up for grabs at eBay, currently $7,700 will take this baby home!