Saving energy Italian style
Say Italy, and most people think of fashion, fast cars and spaghetti. Maybe we should be thinking of something else. Saving energy. Today, on Engineering Works! Just about everywhere in the industrialized world, people are looking for ways to save energy. Especially electricity. So far, Italy seems to be ahead in developing an electrical grid [...]
Hyperspace travel?
We’re going to step into the middle of a nifty science and engineering controversy. Today. On Engineering Works! If you’ve ever taken a physics course, you know that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. A hundred-86-thousand miles a second. Seven-hundred – million – miles an hour. Everything physicists know says you can’t [...]
Hybrids on the construction site
When you drive down the street, you see hybrid automobiles every day. But how about a hybrid bulldozer? Big iron. Today, on Engineering Works! Hybrid automobiles have been around for quite a while. Honda introduced the first gasoline-electric hybrid to the United States in 1999. In 2004, Toyota started selling the Prius and Ford’s Escape [...]