The S3D application models the underlying turbulent combustion of fuels in an internal combustion engine.
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As for automobiles:Though cars were still 23 years off, the internal combustion engine had been invented.
An internal combustion generator converts the gas back into electricity to provide power for the home.
All in all, the Internet may not be quite up there with the internal combustion engine.
Burns says a fuel-cell vehicle has one-tenth the number of parts of a traditional internal combustion engine.
It actually began to occur long before humans invented agriculture, smoke stacks, and gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines.
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It is a hybrid, powered by both a small internal combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor.
High-efficiency internal combustion engines combined with lightweight materials can dramatically increase fuel efficiency in cars and trucks.
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But others said it would take a lot more power than that to replace an internal combustion engine.
And fuel cells are more efficient than internal combustion engines because they do not create as much unused heat.
Electric cars are not going to replace internal combustion cars any time soon.
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The same sort of thing happened when the internal combustion engine came along.
This is from a company that sold 21 million internal combustion engines for cars, motorcycles, lawnmowers and boats last year.
Internal combustion engines have been around for over 100 years, but they generally are only 10 to 20 percent efficient.
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In 1913, Rudolf Diesel, French inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine, disappeared and presumably drowned in the English Channel.
Hybrids, already being sold by Honda and Toyota by the thousands, use battery-powered electric motors to assist traditional internal combustion engines.
Once the internal combustion engine made society mobile, a lot of cropland was magically converted into commercial and residential development acreage.
Petroleum caught on early as the main fuel source for internal combustion engines because it was plentiful and cheap to refine.
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As a distinguished lobby colleague noted, it is like regulating the buggy whip just as the internal combustion engine is coming in.
The goal is to achieve cost parity between EVs and internal combustion vehicles, and one strategy for doing that is frequency regulation.
Technologies such as internal combustion engines and gas turbines will continue to improve gradually in efficiency but they are familiar and developed.
It bends upward again with the second industrial revolution of the late 1800s built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
With the loss of inefficient internal combustion engines along with the use of heat-pumps and better insulation in the building sector etc.
So some people might be surprised at my latest venture: retrofitting the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma with a powerful internal combustion engine.
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The key to thermal efficiency for internal combustion engines is compression ratio.
It takes another upward bend with the second industrial revolution in the late 1800s, built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
Methane can be used in any application we need done, including powering internal combustion engines -it can even be used in catalytic fuel cells.
Such technological disruptions from the steam engine and electricity to the internal combustion engine and the transistor used to come once a generation or so.
Even at speeds of up to 75 mph, the internal combustion engine is not engaged as long as the battery has sufficient charge.
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In our view, the conditions are ripe for a shake-up of a complacent, century-old industry heavily invested in the status quo of internal combustion.
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