MetaFilter posts tagged with engine

Take Those Damned Goggles Off

The Whelk — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 09:37:39 -0800

Television Without Pity re-capper Jacob Clifton has written a short steampunk story for Tor.com. “There’s a level on which the story is an indictment of using steampunk as a fashion or trend. It came about because I wanted to see what would happen if you substituted Jane Austen for Jules Verne in the steampunk equation...” The Commonplace Book

11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee.

Brockles — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:00:51 -0800

If you've ever wondered what it looks like to have a Triumph Spitfire engine miraculously re-build and install itself into a Classic sports car through the magic of time lapse, then your day may just get a little bit better.

An online course in (really) small engine repair

FishBike — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:39:21 -0800

A tiny V-12. This video shows the machining, assembly, and running of a very, very small 12-cylinder engine.

"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of." ~Michel de Montaigne

Fizz — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:26:42 -0800

Book Blogs Search Engine: "Looking for reviews of a book by real-life book bloggers? Tired of sifting through corporate sites in your regular Google search results? That’s why I created the Book Blogs custom search engine – all book bloggers, all the time! Whether you’re looking for other non-commercial reviews of a book you’ve just read, or want real readers’ opinions on a new book you’re considering, this is the place." If you want to include your book blog in the search engine, leave a comment at this link.

Wave Goodbye to the Internal Combustion Engine

Rykey — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:05:21 -0800

Michigan State University builds a prototype that would replace the internal combustion engine in automobiles. The wave disk engine runs on shockwaves, and would emit 90% less carbon dioxide, run at 3.5 times greater fuel efficiency, and weigh about 1,000 pounds less than a combustion engine system in a typical automobile.

Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder

Brian B. — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:56:30 -0800

The OPOC engine reignites internal combustion. A new engine company from the Detroit area, Ecomotors, has developed a smaller, cooler, quieter, lighter, stronger, and more efficient power plant for the vehicle of your choice, military or civilian. Bill Gates has $23 million invested. The OPOC may be a new design, but it's not a new concept for engines; the components are off the shelf, and the designers are seasoned pros. According to EcoMotors, their leadership team has more than 230 years of collective experience in the automotive and power generation industries, has been awarded over 150 patents, and has managed more than 30 powertrain programs and more than two dozen new vehicle launches. Between them the company’s leaders have won four engine of the year awards.

Google now lets you filter via basic, intermediate and advanced reading levels...

Muirwylde — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:15:33 -0800

Getting to advanced reading level content. As pioneered by Adrien Chen of Gawker, by far the most interesting application of the tool is its ability to rate the overall level of material on any given site, simply by dropping site: [domain.com] into the search box.

Defending the nation from temptation

infini — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:14:48 -0800

Air force personnel stole Malaysian fighter jet engine(s) from a military warehouse to sell on the black market abroad. Chaos ensues. Humour lurks. Rumours fly. Previously.

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.