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.
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 is a hybrid, powered by both a small internal combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor.
But others said it would take a lot more power than that to replace an internal combustion engine.
The same sort of thing happened when the internal combustion engine came along.
In 1913, Rudolf Diesel, French inventor of the diesel internal combustion engine, disappeared and presumably drowned in the English Channel.
Once the internal combustion engine made society mobile, a lot of cropland was magically converted into commercial and residential development acreage.
As a distinguished lobby colleague noted, it is like regulating the buggy whip just as the internal combustion engine is coming in.
It bends upward again with the second industrial revolution of the late 1800s built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
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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It takes another upward bend with the second industrial revolution in the late 1800s, built on the internal combustion engine, electricity and telephony.
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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He also outlined some radical ambitions for the next decade including reductions in road traffic and the eventual replacement of the internal combustion engine.
Several years ago, while sitting on the board of an internal combustion engine startup, I had to nix a proposal to seek a cleantech earmark.
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If you were plowing a field in the era before the internal combustion engine, the harness was the only way to get the job done right.
The technology isn't new-a patent for a hydrogen internal combustion engine was issued in 1928, and a 20hp fuel-cell tractor was demonstrated in the late 1950s.
It's powered by a hydrogen internal combustion engine that turns a 44-kilowatt electric generator that runs eight propellers and whatever communications equipment is loaded on board.
The sense of moving through the world without the sound of an internal combustion engine roaring up in front is one that I could get used to.
In the mean time we just have to deal with gas, and I am sure some day a new technology will eventually replace the internal combustion engine.
All this from a company founded a century ago that's making a product that hasn't fundamentally changed since then: an internal combustion engine bolted between two rubber wheels.
It can be used to run an internal combustion engine in a car or power one using a fuel cell, with heat and water as the only emissions.
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Similarly, English outfit No Internal Combustion Engine (NICE, very cute) is previewing an all-electric sports car that it plans to show off at the London Auto Show in July.
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Thomas Edison himself wasted part of his fortune trying to develop the battery to enable Henry Ford to offer an electric car to compete against the internal combustion engine.
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Unlike a conventional internal combustion engine, LEAF has 100 percent of its torque available from start, delivering smooth, consistent acceleration and the driving feel similar to a conventional V6 engine.
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In the 1980s, they like to point out, Mr Gore focused on global warming: he even predicted, amid much derision at the time, the demise of the internal combustion engine.
Because Nissan LEAF does not have an internal combustion engine, Nissan has incorporated an "Approaching Vehicle Sound for Pedestrians" system, which is designed to alert pedestrians that a vehicle is approaching.
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Without an internal combustion engine or transmission tunnel, the interior of Model S has more cargo space than any other sedan in its class and includes a second trunk under the hood.
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