Sentences with phrase «in a car engine»

Look around you at all the items in your house, all the parts in your cars engine.

In a car engine there is a lot of power and energy.

How can you tell if surfaces — of the cylinders in your car engine, for example — are smooth enough to perform as they should?

And we're still, because we're burning so much carbon in our car engines, transport's also the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases, of course.

This is what causes the «knocking» sound in a car engine that isn't using the right fuel.

We use data from the GREET model (Argonne National Laboratory) to calculate the emissions from extracting crude oil, transport to a refinery, conversion to gasoline, delivery to a filling station, and burning in a car engine.

Mama cats need a safe, warm place to leave their kittens while they hunt for food, which is why many kittens are found in car engines.

Using a British term for a type of alternator in a car engine, he noted that the economy had what he called «magneto trouble.»

Honda said its poor reliability came as a surprise because the problems didn't show up until the engines were actually put in the cars

Until now, Canova explained, researchers could only measure a lithium - ion battery's output (in voltage and current) and then make computer models of what might be going on inside — a process that he likened to «trying to study the combustion processes in a car engine when all you can do is measure the torque and speed at the wheels.»

The importance of a surface's roughness can be seen in car engines, where if the walls of the engine's cylinders are too smooth they will seize, meaning that the surface needs to be just rough enough to carry a film of lubricant to maintain a smooth piston action.

Meanwhile, chemists, engineers and materials scientists at technology company Johnson Matthey are taking inspiration from catalysts in car engines to improve the activity and durability of such chemicals.

Lehr: We already use the cyber world to control the real world in our car engines and braking systems, but when we start using the Internet, distributed networks, and resources on some cloud to make decisions for us, that raises a lot of questions.

The hammer has internal moving components that require lubrication, similar to a piston in a car engine.

The Lean Power processor monitors the rotation of the flywheel, which in car engines spins at anything between 600 and 6000 revolutions per minute depending on the gear and speed.

«We have been able to develop designs that could be applied in hygiene products or lubrication in car engines, based on how the skin of Texas horned lizards transports water,» he says.

In launching the program, Roy Romer, then LAUSD superintendent, said this «is like putting a turbocharger in a car engine.

The engine coolant temperature sensor in your cars engine, together with its inlet air sensor work together to decide the operating of your cars engine at start up.

Car air conditioning can cause a surge in the car engine if belt have slipped, the throttle body is faulty, or the idle control valve needs replacing.

He is allowed to share his home with four cats, Al, Gus, Bean, and Lefty, who lost his left ear in a car engine as a stray.

They have complained of cats ripping garbage bags and vinyl car roofs, eating flowers and shrubs, scratching car paint and getting stuck in car engines.

And the researchers deliberately excluded CO2 emissions from burning the ethanol in car engines, making their findings of a net increase in GHG's even more damning.

The main reason for this is that frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact: think of the moving parts in a car engine.

Luckily, soon after the man dropped off the kittens he'd found in his car engine, a transport team from Helen Woodward Animal Center arrived at the shelter.

Two independent studies commissioned by the Alberta Energy Research Institute in 2008 concluded that the life - cycle carbon emissions (including burning it in your car engine) of oil derived from the oilsands was just 10 % greater than the average from all sources and slightly less than that from the heavy - oil industry in California, a state that has adopted a low - carbon fuel standard that would exclude the product of the Canadian oilsands.

Arsene Wenger often talks about this, claiming that Ozil does the simple things so well that he is like the oil in a car engine.

Here it is important to use a specific motorbike engine oil, as friction modifiers (common in car engine oil) are highly damaging to the clutch and the gearbox needs a certain amount of high - pressure additives (not so common in car engine oil).

Cats warming themselves in a car engine or dogs tangling with a motor vehicle may require amputation due to an irreparable fracture.

Check under the hood before you start your car; cats are notorious for camping out in car engines to stay warm

Especially in a city environment, stray cats will often curl up in car engines to keep warm.