Automotive Gas Turbines – Then & Now
I was reading about a new serial hybrid that uses a micro-turbine, and that got me looking at automotive turbines of the past. We’ve come a long way, baby!
Battery fill up via pump?
Turns out the crafty Germans are at it again! As reported in the Fraunhofer Research News recently, a group there is working with something called a redox flow battery. Basically it uses a liquid instead of a solid to store the charge. This isn’t new, but the team has brought the energy density up to that of [...]
RoHS & COTS hit the DOD – Damned Wiskers!
So, I was reading about some new GPS guided 155mm howitzer shells (think your Garmin Nuvi can take getting shot out of a cannon?), really interesting technology in it’s own right, when I came across an article on some conflicts between wanting to do right and wanting to be reliable.
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