Nov. 30 -- In order to develop more fuel-efficient, environmentally friendly power sources of the future, some researchers are turning to a technology of the past. Several companies and developers ...

In his attempt to develop the next generation of experimental powertrains, Texas inventor Josh MacDowell has gone way back in time. By pairing modern hybrid batteries and electric motors with a ...

Just how small can you make an engine? Two researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Valentin Blickle and Clemens Bechinger, successfully ...

Next time you’re making yourself a tunafish sandwich, try to figure out how to build a Stirling engine from the leftovers (translated). If you can pull it off as well as [Killerlot] did we’d say ...

The proposed design is based on a Stirling engine – an engine first invented in the 19 th century that uses hot pressurized gas to push a piston. It would use a 50-pound nuclear uranium battery to ...

For thrifty motorists, squeezing an extra few miles out of each gallon of fuel can become an obsession. But some have been striving for a semi-mythical goal of achieving 100 miles per gallon of fuel ...