DailyDirt: Tiny Engines That Could

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Combustion engines aren't getting much love from the media now that batteries and electric cars seem to be getting better. However, combustion engines still have a performance edge in many situations, and engines could even do better at smaller scales, too. Here are just a few microscopic engines that could power interesting devices someday. If you'd like to read more awesome and interesting stuff, check out this unrelated (but not entirely random!) Techdirt post via StumbleUpon.
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Filed Under: carnot limit, combustion, engine, laser, nano-heat engine, nanobubbles, nanotech, smallest, steam engine, stirling engine


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    Anonymous Coward, 29 Aug 2014 @ 8:36am

    Non

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    Anonymous Coward, 29 Aug 2014 @ 8:37am

    None of these are practical engines. Call me in 50yrs. Hopefully I won't be dead.

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