A step forward has been taken to create a battery which could recharge in seconds, rather than hours.
If you are fed up of waiting for your mobile phone to charge then you may be pleased to hear the news, which has been announced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
This work could also mark the [...]
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called for a redesign of an engine component in Boeing 777 planes to avoid sudden power losses of aircraft while in flight.
A build-up of ice in the fuel/oil heat exchanger could have caused the crash landing of a plane at Heathrow airport.
Rolls-Royce has been quick-off-the-mark in starting redesign [...]
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The energy wasted by bumps on the road could be harnessed by shock absorbers to deliver a ten per cent improvement in fuel efficiency, a report outlines.
According to two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, energy from the wheels pushing up is dissipated as heat, which sensors revealed was being lost and not used [...]
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Transcend has been announced as the Project Partner for the Crossrail scheme under a tender estimated to be worth around £100 million.
Construction remains on track to start next year and the firm will help Crossrail deliver the overall programme on time, safely, to the standards required and within budget.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson says that [...]
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The Da Vinci helicopter has been announced by AugustaWestland and will be used by REGA, a Swiss air-rescue operator, to carry out missions.
After an extended process of evaluation by the firm, REGA placed an order for 11 aircraft to support it in rapid hospital-to-hospital transfers and high altitude rescue missions.
State-of-the-art avionics include a Radio Management [...]
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The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is searching for an "innovative design solution" for the pool lift in the Aquatics Centre in order to provide better access for users who are disabled.
Current designs on the market either put a lane out of action for races or require more than minimal assistance to disabled swimmers, the ODA [...]
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Balfour Beatty has won a contract to build a new high school, career technology facility and stadium in Texas over a 124-acre site.
Pre-construction services are expected to immediately start after the decision by Eagle Mountain-Saginaw independent school district.
And in North Carolina, the construction and engineering firm has been chosen to work on the Mecklenburg county [...]
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An updated version of Volvo’s I-Shift has been announced by the car engineering firm and includes a number of design features which you may be interested to learn about.
These new features reduce fuel costs, increase gearchanging comfort and improve traction, the company claims.
Indeed, the automated gearchanging system can now match the performance levels of the [...]
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British Petroleum (BP) has made its 17th oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31 offshore of Angola.
According to BP, it is the fifth discovery in the block where the exploration well has been drilled through salt in order to access the sandstone oil-bearing reservoir underneath.
The discovery was made 415 km north-west of Luanda and 12 km [...]
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An electrical engineering professor at Purdue University has turned a run-of-the-mill tricycle into an electrically-powered machine which could lead to the development of green vehicles.
The bike is powered by an electric charge and can be connected to a data-collection test stand where its efficiency and power usage can be analysed by researchers.
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