Sentences with phrase «of jet turbine»

Connecting rods would punch holes in blocks, camshafts would pulverize themselves and bearing inserts would spin like the blades of a jet turbine.

Not exact matches

Soaring solo above the Hudson River, boldly gliding like Iron Man past the Statue of Liberty, twin mini jet turbines strapped to your back.

The gas turbine operates like a jet engine but drives a generator instead of fan blades.

Jet engines, power turbines, motors, drives, the inside of a locomotive, a CT scanner — they all spin.

General Electric on Friday delivered quarterly earnings that surpassed analysts» expectations, as its businesses producing jet engines and power turbines offset declines in its oil and gas segment, but revenue fell short of estimates.

Even as I write this, I can hear the turbine rumble of a commercial jet soaring over my Chicago suburb.

He imagined a device that could fly in the relentless punishment of the jet stream: a giant wing, fitted with multiple turbines, that would take off and land like a helicopter.

Fossil fuel industries collect some $ 4 billion a year in tax breaks and other aid, reports Taxpayers for Common Sense, a group of nonpartisan budget watchdogs — and that figure doesn't even take into account hidden forms of support, such as the Pentagon's jet aircraft research and development that led to efficient new natural gas turbines.

Instead of streaming out of a metal casing and turbine, a blazar's jets «are confined and focused by coiled magnetic fields originating near the [supermassive] black hole.»

When evaluating a part, such as a turbine blade inside a hot jet engine, it is important to know how each segment of the blade heats up as hot gases flow around it.

Camci, who has worked on the method since 1989 with Steve Hippensteele of NASA's Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, says that liquid crystals have several advantages: «The crystals are available as sheets of Mylar (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic or in liquid form, so that covering an entire piece of equipment, such a s a turbine blade or a jet engine duct, is fairly simple, particularly compared to applying thermocouples.

The Acer's thermal management system borrows from jet - engine turbine technology, using louvers in the vents to direct airflow across the bottom of the chassis.

Inc., which has a manufacturing facility in Livermore and has licensed an LLNL laser technology for peening jet engine fan blades and turbines, and other aircraft structures, in one of the Laboratory's most successful technology commercialization partnerships.

The micro gas turbines from Bladon Jets generate enough electricity to extend the range of the car to 900 km (559 mi) while producing 28 grams of CO2 per kilometre on the EU test cycle.

Other vehicles were released between the Model 6 and the 1950s, but one of the most influential innovations from Chrysler came with their the commissioning of a gas turbine engine program, which helped the company develop cars that ran as smoothly and powerfully as a jet engine.

Details such as the turbine - look air vents and air conditioning controls seem to be straight out of a jet plane.

From above, the instrument panel resembles an airplane wing; set low and with a turbine look about them, the round air nozzles, a classic TT feature, are reminiscent of jet engines.

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«As a new highlight of the ambient lighting, the illuminated air vents are reminiscent of jet aircraft turbines.

The current Infiniti signature grille appears to be gone, replaced with a deep sulking one with a finely finned intake somewhat reminiscent of the front turbine on a jet engine.

BKL: You included a number of technical terms in Jet Plane: How It Works, such as fuselage, turbine, and combustion chamber.

He's been ramping up his own commitments since then, and pledged last year to double his investments (to $ 2 billion) on a host of energy frontiers in the next five years — from new battery and solar technologies to a safer nuclear plant design to tethered, high - flying wind turbines that might harness the power of the jet stream.

This video below shows better that in the core of centrifugal pumps or jet turbines mass flow is being ignored regarding the design of mass flow partitioning.

In the latest round of complications for the Pantego Wind Energy Project, U.S. military officials in Wayne County have disclosed that the 49 - turbine wind farm would imperil the daily bombing runs of low - flying fighter jets at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.

Meanwhile, manufacturers led by Siemens AG are working to almost double the capacity of the current range of turbines, which already have wingspans bigger than the largest jumbo jets.

One side's idea of hypocrisy is that of Gore owning a mansion, or RFK Jr opposing wind turbines around Cape Cod, or McKiibben taking a jet to a conference.

War, perhaps the most state - directed of all enterprises, accelerated the diffusion of several key energy technologies, most notably the internal combustion engine, jet turbines, and nuclear reactors.

«It sounds just like a prop jet outside the house,» says Keith Dillenbeck, his description of wind turbines defying many people's picture of green energy.

In May, Immelt announced that G.E. is doubling its annual R&D spending on clean technology to $ 1.5 billion — developing a dizzying array of wind turbines, hybrid - engine trains, state - of - the - art jet engines, zero - emission coal plants and superefficient home appliances.

Human irritation from jet engines, lawn mowers, and wind turbines, much less SunChips» loud, crinkly bioplastic bags, stands as a reminder of the importance of the aural environment.

Advancements undertaken by manufacturers include designing taller towers and turbines with longer and lighter blades allowing rotor diameters to exceed 100 meters, larger than the wingspan of the largest commercial jets.

although this is alread more then the amount of birds wind turbines affect, i» l continue, between 100 million and 1 BILLION birds are killed by tall buildings, 60 - 80million from cars and turcks, pesticides, jet engines, smoke, homes and electricity distribution all contibute about 100 MILLION birds each for the U.S alone.

Once you've lugged the box inside, pulling the gleaming white orb from its bed of thick foam feels more like lifting a miniature jet turbine than a wireless speaker, amounting to 26 pounds of dense, hard - shelled technology.