Collaborate Disseminate
When we last saw Franky Zapata back in May, he was spinning uncontrollably down into the water from a serious height in a terrifying jetboard crash. But the flying Frenchman is back to launch a new, high-speed personal aircraft called the JetRacer.Cont… Continue reading Zapata launches 250-km/h, flip-capable, jet-powered flying deck chair
Drone-maker Fusionflight has announced an 8-kW microturbine generator that weighs less than one-tenth of what an equivalent petrol generator would, and it’s the size of a toolbox instead of needing its own wheels – if you can handle the epic noise leve… Continue reading World’s smallest 8-kW generator rocks a deafening microturbine
You don’t happen to own and operate your own turbojet engine, do you? If you do, have you ever had the urge to “kick the tires and light the fires”? …read more Continue reading Adding Voluminous Joy to a DIY Turbojet With a DIY Afterburner
Gas turbines are found in aircraft, trains, ships, generators, pumps, compressors and all sorts of other places. They can run on a variety of fuels, but some 90 percent of them currently run on natural gas, a fossil fuel that produces carbon dioxide wh… Continue reading Researchers run a gas turbine on pure hydrogen in world first
There are plenty of rocket experimenters toying with various liquid-fueled contraptions at the moment, and [Sciencish] is one of them. He grew tired of using air-pressurized fuel delivery systems in …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Turbo Pump Hopes to Propel Rockets To The Sky
Wind turbines are a fantastic, cheap, renewable source of energy. However, nothing lasts forever, and over time, the blades of wind turbines fatigue and must be replaced. This then raises …read more Continue reading Can We Repurpose Old Wind Turbine Blades?
After spending 18 months building an entirely new form of flight control software, California’s Jetpack Aviation has completed flight testing on its first prototype of the Speeder, a jet turbine-powered flying motorcycle. Top speeds on the final versio… Continue reading Jetpack Aviation’s flying motorcycle prototype aces first tests
Wind energy isn’t quite as common of an alternative energy source as solar, at least for small installations. It’s usually much easier just to throw a few panels and a …read more Continue reading Full Size 3D-Printed Wind Turbine
Denmark’s Vestas is looking to become an industry leader in offshore wind, and has introduced the V236-15.0 MW turbine to take the fight to GE. The new design’s blades offer the largest swept area in the world.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceT… Continue reading Vestas reveals offshore turbine with world’s largest sweep
It’s really beginning to feel as though the problem of climate change is a huge boulder rolling down a steep hill, and we have the Sisyphean task of trying to reverse it. While we definitely need to switch as much of the planet over to clean, green energy as soon …read more
Continue reading Typhoon-Tough Turbines Withstand Wild Winds