Electric Space Sail To Get Its First Test
One hundred percent of the energy needed to power the international space station (ISS) is provided by solar power. Because the station is so large and has been built in many locations around the world…
Engineering
Nigeria’s Multi-Billion Dollar National High Speed Rail Project
Efficient railways play an important role in the socioeconomic development of countries. Nigeria has received $600 million of what will eventually be billions of dollars to build a 2,000 mile (3,218 km) nationwide high speed…
Super Thin Plastic Laptops Sturdier Than Metal
Thinner, Lighter, More Portable, Tougher = More Productive PC design engineers are forever seeking ways to improve the products they make. These days with all the breakthroughs in materials, CAD modeling, electronics and software across…
World’s Largest Nuclear Powered Ice Breaker
One would think that China had a corner on “the largest in the world” but Russia has its share of “largest in the world” trophies. At one time or another, Russia has had the largest…
Boeing Technology Transfer Negotiations With Brazil On 737 Jet Deal Spur Debate
In 1990 I visited Shenzen, China, which just a decade earlier had been a small farming village of 10,000 people but had been designated a “special economic zone” that quickly reached a population of over…
As Buildings Rise Ever Higher Elevator Logistics Rise With Them
Lighter, stronger, more durable and efficient elevators were needed; KONE, a 103 year old industrial engineering company founded in 1908 in Finland, delivered. According to KONE new tall skyscrapers these days shuttle each person an…
Check Out The View From The Tallest Buildings On Earth
While we are getting amazing pictures of our world from Google Earth and all its related projects like 3D Earth, the new slew of “tallest buildings in the world” offer startlingly beautiful views of some…
RHex All-Terrain Robot Can Jump And Climb
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have spent the last 15 years developing a new robot that will be able to climb and jump, which could be used in goods transport or military activity by…
How Would The Hyperloop Ensure Safety While Traveling At 760 MPH?
Some in the engineering and technology world are salivating over the economic opportunities presented by Elon Musk’s Hyperloop proposal. It is hard to imagine the Hyperloop without a significant amount of automated equipment and processes. As…
Watch 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds
Despite the obvious turn toward renewable energy resources the past decade has seen record global fossil fuel emissions, year after year, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). This is of course due to…
