Engineering Knowledge Center

https://www.facebook.com/CarlLewisPianistAndTeacher Please support me by clicking like on my Facebook page (and be in for chance to win music vouchers!) The first internal combustion engine was made by a Frenchman called Etienne Lenoir in 1859. He simply modified a steam engine to suck in and ignite the inflammable gas from his gas lights.

The Otto engine is a combustion engine and is considered to be a technological milestone of human thought. It was named after its inventor, Nikolaus August Otto. Otto engines are used in motorcycles, cars and other vehicles. This animation explains the Otto engine.

A car engine uses a four-stroke cycle -- how can two strokes accomplish the same tasks? Learn all about the two-stroke engine, where it's used and how it compares to a four-stroke.

This animation describes the working principles of diesel engines in the context of an inline-four engine that operates in a four-stroke mode. This kind of engine has four cylinders mounted in a straight line. Unlike the typical Otto-cycle engine, a diesel engine takes in only air through the intake valves during the 1st stroke.

Watch MythBusters Wednesdays at 9 PM ET/PT | For more, visit (website) | Could Hitler have survived if the 1944 briefcase bomb was detonated in an enclosed space? Adam Savage tests what happens when shock waves are contained vs. released.

An array of 138 mousetraps are set off in a chain reaction. Ping-pong balls help visualize both neutrons and the release of energy. Shot in 600 fps and 1000 fps. Thanks to Rob for letting us use the camera. For more details on our setup see http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/nuclear-fission

Jem Stansfield explores a never used reactor core at the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in Austria, to explain how a nuclear power station works. Bang Goes The Theory, investigating the science behind the headlines and making sense of the everyday issues that matter to us all.

Darlington nuclear power plant

Made for Alford Academy, Aberdeenshire. I researched, planned, wrote, composited, edited, narrated and made music for it in half a day using Motion 5, Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X. © Finn Sims Films Ltd 2013 - http://finnsims.com

This collection of videos was created about half a century ago to explain fluid mechanics in an accessible way for undergraduate engineering and physics students. I find that no other series of videos has explained the basics of fluid mechanics better than this one by the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics (those national committees gotta be good for something...)

This collection of videos was created about half a century ago to explain fluid mechanics in an accessible way for undergraduate engineering and physics students. I find that no other series of videos has explained the basics of fluid mechanics better than this one by the National Committee for Fluid Mechanics (those national committees gotta be good for something...)

BEST VIEWED IN HD 720P. This visualization was created using simulations run on the supercomputers at the National Center of Computational Sciences and shows the expected operation of the ITER fusion reactor. This reactor is currently being built by a global coalition in Cadarache, France and is expected to begin the first experiments in 2020.

ITER the great adventure of fusion. Scientific visualization courtesy of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The original visualization can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-6hJ8sltdI

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The small modular reactor program at the Savannah River Site and the Savannah River National Laboratory.

At the heart of the ITER scientific installation is the Tokamak Complex, a 400,000-tonne edifice composed of the Tokamak, Diagnostic and Tritium buildings. Eighty metres tall (including basement levels), 120 metres long and 80 metres wide, the Tokamak Complex will dominate the ITER platform when it is completed.

From towers to dishes to linear mirrors to troughs, concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies reflect and collect solar heat to generate electricity. A single CSP plant can generate enough power for about 90,000 homes. This video explains what CSP is, how it works, and how systems like parabolic troughs produce renewable power.

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi on Sunday officially opened the world's largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, which cost $600m to build and will provide electricity to 20,000 homes. The 100-megawatt Shams 1 is "the world's largest concentrated solar power plant in operation" said Sultan al-Jaber, the head of Abu Dhabi's Masdar, which oversees the emirate's plan to generate seven percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020.

The solar power tower is a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive the focused sunlight. It uses an array of flat, movable mirrors (called heliostats) to focus the sun's rays upon a collector tower (the target). Concentrated solar thermal is seen as one viable solution for renewable, pollution-free energy.

The statement from Malcolm Turnbull, "Solar is good for humanity" would have massive symbolic impact. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE. https://www.change.org/p/prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-all-australians-solar-is-good-for-humanity

The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System generates 377 MW of clean solar power, enough to power 140,000 California homes. This brief video provides some quick facts and images from this iconic infrastructure project.

http://www.homemadepowerplant.com/?hop=adonpub The EuroDish is an innovative 10 kilowatt solar stirling generator for decentralized power generation in Europe, developed by a German-Spanish consortium in 2001. The devise is currently in operation producing electricity in Milan, Italy.

The PowerDish™ by Infinia converts the sun's heat into grid-quality AC power, generating more electricity at a lower cost than competing technologies. Powered by Infinia's free-piston Stirling engine, the PowerDish delivers high performance with proven reliability.

The Vanguard Solar Parabolic Dish Stirling System set eight technical world records for the conversion of solar insolation to grid electricity in 1984. Foremost was the 29.4% conversion efficiency that remained unsurpassed until Sandia National Laboratories surpassed it November 1984.