A minor modification to your car could reduce fuel consumption by over seven per cent. The Deakin University invention uses waste heat to reduce friction by warming the engine oil. A prototype has been built and tested and the inventors are now talking to the car manufacturers and developing an aftermarket conversion kit.
Smarter air traffic control could save 500 kg of fuel and reduce airport noise by 35% for a typical Boeing 747 flight between Sydney and Melbourne according to a team of Canberra-based researchers.
We’re not protecting young car passengers as well as we could, according to researchers at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.
Sound could stop light planes from stalling Sound can be used to control the flow of air over an aircraft’s wing greatly boosting its lift, according to a Sydney aerospace engineer who is working on applying this idea to a new generation of light aircraft. Ian Salmon has developed a technique whereby a wing is…
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