Turbojet engines are an incredible piece of 20th century ... and powered the compressor with an electric motor? And instead of using an axial compressor with tons of tiny blades that would likely ...

When [Jay Bowles] demoed his first-generation ion thruster on Plasma Channel ... more like a miniature jet engine than anything that had come before it. Optimizations would need to be made ...

The Plasma Jet Magnetohydrodynamic effects in an electric arc generate a beam of electrons and ions with a temperature of 30,000 degrees F., the highest maintained beyond an instant by a man-made ...

For more than 100 years, the company has been designing and manufacturing aircraft engines and is now a global leader in the market. As a jet engine ... with the General Electric GEnx as customers ...

While Rolls-Royce and others in the aerospace industry are working on electric and hybrid propulsion systems for aircraft, for long-haul aircraft, at the moment jet engines are the only option.

The '60s were the golden age of American muscle cars, and this vibrant automotive scene witnessed the birth of many iconic engines ... the electric motor in the Cobra Jet boasts 1,400 horsepower ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a massive plasma jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87. This “blow-torch”-like jet, traveling near the speed of ...

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However, the automotive internal combustion engine is a dying breed, and ushering in its extinction is another form of automotive propulsion that predates fossil-burning. Electric vehicles have ...

In a windswept corner of a military site on Salisbury Plain a small aircraft jet engine is undergoing tests ... It is made by using an electric current to split water into its components, hydrogen ...