Engineering

Reading in the paper about the opening of the world's biggest carbon capture plant, I had to wonder if this expensive tech-heavy approach was the most efficent way to reduce atmospheric CO2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/05/09/climeworks-mammoth-carbon-capture/ Wouldn't using Iceland's "plentiful goethermal" to power homes and vehicles etc be a more efficient way to keep carbon out of the air? The most efficient carbon capture, it seems to me, is not putting carbon in the air in the first place, i.e. promote green energy and agriculture and industry. Rather than letting big carbon polluters "greenwash" their industries, i.e. validate…

Hello eveyone, I am inspired by the up-to-date subject of quantum computing and its potential to change how we process information. However, as a beginner in quantum mechanics and computing, I am struggling to understand the complexity. Could someone please explain the basics of quantum computing, its present uses, quantum algorithms, and limitations? If anyone can provide some resources and share their experience for my better understanding. I greatly appreciate your support. Thanks.

I am trying to build a small motor driven vehicle, this is toy size. I have a polycarbonate sheet and 4 motors, and 4 plastic wheels (but also have other wheel, so can interchange them. I have wired this up so far so that 2 of the wheels are wired up to a battery, the other 2 wheels are just attached to motors, my main issue regardless of how I do things, is that a motor plus wheel spins if held up, as soon as I put down on a flat surface, the motor + wheel stops turning. I am not an engineer, so not really sure what to do here. Thanks Paul

Good day all. Move to engineering, computer sciences, whatever deserves it. Saw in the news today that there is a void in systems for collision prevention. Discarded because of brutal costs to implement. Seen for decades the mess of recovering 'black boxes' in accidents. This top bulge front of the tail is the implementation of internet on airliners, already installed in most, waiting some decisions : 1- With GPS everywhere, why is not the collision prevention been implemented with just an application on cell phones ? Every aircraft in the vicinity can know position, speed and heading of others that way. Is it because that way there will be much le…

I’ve just had some new windows fitted which have argon between the two layers of glass. I can’t find a good explanation for this on line. I would expect the heat capacity to be lower than for air, as argon is monatomic, but this does not seem likely to be relevant. Would argon conduct heat less well and if so, why? Some “explanations” say the higher density of argon is an advantage but I can’t immediately see why. I can see that an inert gas would not react over time with components of the frame and seals, but this does not seem to be the chief reason for its use. Lower heat and sound conduction seem to be the reasons given, but why would this be? Does anyone kno…

A millionaire with a fortune of 900 million dollars wants to build the ultimate vigilante suit that could allow a skilled fighter to fight crime on dark alleys at night and escape the police. He is insane and is willing to spend all his wealth on creating this suit. His plan is to hire skilled engineers in a secret facility. All the required materials would be purchased to the degree they are available on the market. What are the maximum sci-fi features he could achieve to add to this suit for this budget? What amount of protection could be achieved against ballistic threats? What level of bulletproof protection could the suit provide for the head, fac…

Greetings. Living in USA, and used to the way dwellings are built; the thermal considerations take priority over other risks as fire, wind damage, rigidity... Insulating and poor thermal conductivity materials is a part well taken care of in construction practices. How is thermal losses taken care in Europe, what are the modern building techniques ?

I have developed a very innovative combustion motor with a fully hydraulic transmission system. I'm posting here the diagram with a brief description I made to present it. The aim is to discuss potential problems and/or advantages it could have that I haven't seen on it. Any comment is welcome. Here is given a schematic description of a combustion motor with a simple but innovative hydraulic transmission system (based on an adaptation of an electrical device known as rectifier to hydraulics) which converts an alternating hydraulic flux to a “continuous” flux with automatic valves. The continuous hydraulic fluid would be directly transferred to hyd…

the journal which I successfully conducted a review returned me an acknowledgement with additional kind invitation as to express that they would like to see me again in the future as also an author . But I do not mind really. why to do that ? First, I have already regular job (but this is not thoroughly an academic position really) and I believe I will have no earnings. So, why to bother myself,why ? that is ok that I accept I deal with science and I sometimes believe I have found some very sensitive and really effective things/results for community (by community I both mean folks (big data) and scientists. (because scientists are also member of folks) but …

Researchers in the Graduate school of Engineering at Chiba University Japan have discovered that adding caffeine to specific platinum electrodes can enhance the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells. https://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=62709#:~:text=Despite%20their%20promise%2C%20fuel%20cells,platinum%20electrodes%20by%2011%20times. Their study which was published in Communications Chemistry on February 3rd, 2024 claims that Professor Nagahiro Hoshi, along with colleagues Masashi Nakamura, Ryuta Kubo, and Rui Suzuki conducted their experiments by submerging platinum electrodes of varying types in a caffeine-containing electrolyte. They discovered that caff…

Hello, I would like to know how the mechanism that rotates the "basket" for squeezing the mop works. This is part of a larger project of which I am a member and nowhere can I find a detailed description of all the gears, ball bearings, etc. (just something like: press the pedal and the "basket" will start to rotate) I would be very grateful if someone would explain it to me or send me a link to a website about this mechanism. thanks in advance for all your answers.

A Chilean LATAM Airlines LA800 flight from Sydney to Auckland NZ suffered a ‘Technical Event’ on Monday that sent the 787 Dreamliner jet plunging 500 feet in an instant, injuring some 50 passengers, 12 of whom needed hospital treatment on arrival in Auckland. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/latam-flight-from-sydney-to-auckland-nose-dives-passengers-and-crew-thrown-into-ceiling/MBE4BNFIFJD73DDZJ3USYZYL5M/ Passengers subsequently told reporters that the pilot had apologised to them after the incident, and said that he had lost control of the plane after “All the gauges went blank”. The nature of this technical event appears to be related to an AD (Airworthiness Dir…

Applying the lessons from bats... What would have determined the 90 degree disposition of the parabolas signals and the 180 degrees one respect to the other, instead of straight at the ends of the 'ears tube' ?

Salicylic acid is produced through Kolbe - Schmitt process - using phenoxide + CO2 -> sodium salicylate and then subsequent acidification to give acid. In these steps I need to mix a powder sodium salicylate at 150 Deg C with Water at 25 deg C to get a slurry. What kind of mixer can I use for the same ? I can use a stirred tank but to calculate the residence time I would need to do pulse experiments, which is not possible to do before hand.

Hi all. Bought several tiny nebulizers to humidify a germinating room. Testing one for two weeks, ceased to produce the fog. Do not know how to revive. By cleaning sort of worked at half production for an hour. Read about and found : ---> https://www.electroschematics.com/mist-maker/ But the surprising specification says "5um" "740 holes" So I projected a laser to the stainless piezodisc and yes, shined trough the supposed-to-be holes in metal (5 micrometres per above) invisible to eyes or magnifying lens. Confirming it is a microperforated disc. Never saw a piezoelement perforated. How is the principle of operation of such nebu…

can we reviewers add references in a report ? (is it the done thing? and are there cases which render the referencing as mandatory action?

Though there is a lot of importance given to renewable energy but is it really not the solution to energy problem because nich market and a tough competition with existing fossil fuel industry it is still expensive Is not 100% reliable

The Samster just asked for a whopping 7 billion investor handout: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/sam-altman-wants-to-raise-up-to-7-trillion-thats-uh-a-lot-of-dough/ar-BB1i3ay5 C'mon... This is clearly bullshit. I can see the "plan" from a billion miles away: 1. Raise trillions 2. Pay himself billions 3. Fuck all, laughs in people's faces as expensive house of cards folds after the smoke clears 4. Open golden parachute to the tune of tens if not hundreds of millions ON TOP 5. Maybe even just repeat that same shit again somewhere else afterwards- It's not as if he hasn't done all this failing-upwards crap BEFORE This is as transparent …

What would be the practicality of using railguns to send supplies into space? The way a railgun works is by using magnets to propel objects at really high speeds so a railgun would no doubt be able to propel a spacecraft at escape velocity and by doing so, it would eliminate the need of fuel to launch spacecraft into space. Such spacecraft would have to be unmanned as the acceleration of a railgun would be too much for people to withstand, they would be squashed like pancakes, but I see no reason why supplies couldn't be sent that way. So the idea is that spacecraft containing supplies could be launched into space and then retrieved by personnel on the ISS, Im wondering h…

I am an Indian inventor. For a long time, I am continuing personal research about a new kind of wind power generation system. Recently, while searching net, I have found out that the necessary machinery is already available in market. In short, the machine now can be built easily. At present, I have completed the CAD drawing and done some ANSYS simulation testing. As per the latest simulation where the RPM was set of 3600, the torque was found to be around 1.52 Newton-Meter for a machine of 35 cm diameter and the input wind velocity was set to be 6 m/s. For me, this is promising result and I can say that no wind turbine in anywhere around the world of that little diamete…

To the best of my knowledge, conventional combustion requires oxygen. When you make a fire in the fireplace you need oxygen for it to burn. You need your fuel source which might be wood that you're burning in the fireplace, you need the energy to ignite it which can be produced by rubbing sticks together although in this day and age you would use matches or a lighter, and you need oxygen which on Earth is abundant enough in the environment. In a different environment without oxygen, such as on the moon, it would not work. You would not be able to start a fire in a fireplace on the moon unless you're able to provide the necessary oxygen somehow because on the moon there is…

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As long as the slower ground-based intercepting supersonic projectile is sufficiently forward of the incoming missile, it only needs to arrive at the same time, somewhere along the hypersonic missile's predicted trajectory. Is that correct?

Would it be possible to make a very compact and lightweight steam engine powering an electric generator that can be taken back country camping and used to keep lights and other devices charged the entire time just by looping it into the campfire? And could it be expanded to being hooked into the wood stove of a cabin to keep the lights and other devices running as long as there is a fire in the stove? How cheaply could such a generator be made while still producing an acceptable amount of power, such as charging a smartphone at full speed in the small camping version and possibly running a full cabin's lighting and a computer and Starlink internet connection in a larger v…

I've heard of the idea of building a spacecraft that produces an artificial gravity well in front of it. As the spacecraft falls forward the artificial gravity well moves forward with it so that the spacecraft will be continually chasing the gravity well as it moves forward with the spacecraft creating a carrot and stick effect. We might even be able to break the light speed barrier with this concept.