You get into your car, turn the knob, brace for warmth, and get…refrigerated air. Augh. Before you assume the worst, though, take a breath. Most heater failures fall into a short, familiar list for ...

If you live in a region with below freezing temps, you may have heard of engine block heaters. Here's what they are, the different types, and how they work.

Engine overheating is rarely the result of a single failure. It usually happens when several small weaknesses in the cooling system line up, from low coolant to a stuck thermostat or a failing fan. To ...

A heat engine is a device that accepts heat from a high temperature reservoir, T H , performs externalwork, W, and rejects heat to a low temperature reservoir T L. The diagram shows a practical ...

The heat engine works as its intrinsic spin converts heat absorbed from laser beams into oscillations of a trapped ion. Credit: John Goold, Trinity College Dublin A new heat engine made from a ...

There are so many paths we humans are running down in our chase for a greener future it’s extremely hard to keep track of everything. The auto industry is trying to go electric, either by means of ...

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 for ...