A study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) details a "Gambling Carnot Engine" that researchers report can attain 100% ...

Since most heat and heat-engine tests take a rather long time to carry out, the amount of information thus accumulated in the case of any one student can have only a limited scope, and the ...

Hybrid cars are great examples of the approach. Another way to recover some of the energy converted into heat in the average engine is the Waste Heat Engine, or WHE.

A recent study led by Chinese scientists has challenged the hundreds-of-year-old myth that a heat engine can achieve both maximum power output and high efficiency. The approach defies the ...

In order to create a microscopic version of a Stirling engine, the researchers sandwiched a tiny, 2.94 μm melamine bead in a 4 μm water gap between glass slides. Heat was added and removed by ...

Climate Change Is Altering the Global Heat Engine Thermodynamics help explain why storms will become fewer in number but stronger in intensity as the planet warms ...

Researchers have developed a new quantum version of a 150-year-old thermodynamical thought experiment that could pave the way for the development of quantum heat engines.

MIT says its new solid-state thermophotovoltaic heat engine can harvest more energy from heat than the average steam turbine, at a fraction of the cost and using no moving parts. Huge implications ...

Researchers have used an ensemble of NV− centers in diamond for implementing different types of quantum heat engines. They have used these to demonstrate the equivalence of the power output of two ...

Researchers from MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed an innovative heat engine that uses no moving parts, making a significant leap toward more efficient ...