MISCELLANEOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Alright, this is the official first post to my first blog. Seeing as this is made for my ENG 101, it will most likely be exclusive to this class, and possibly future college endeavors. Later posts will reveal any information on adjoining blogs or separate blogs of my own creation.
SUSTAINABILITY BEING PRACTICED:
Anyway, to get to the topic on hand, I found an article today dealing with prototype engine being hypothesized and tested in Madison, Wisconsin. According to what I read, the engineering student from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Matthew Carlson, along with associate professor of mechanical engineering Timothy Shedd, have deduced a way to make engines for household appliances such as lawn mowers and generators more efficient and a little more green. Though there are pros and cons to the engine being developed, this shows how much attention the green movement is truly getting. The innovation would be cheap and could be implemented on older generation motors, which would allow for better energy efficiency and less waste on a greater scale. For more, here is a link to the article: <http://www.news.wisc.edu/19780>
"Wisconsin engineer, entrepreneur move ‘green’ diesel engine closer to market." University of Wisconsin - Madison News. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 19 Sep 2011. Web. 20 Sep 2011. <http://www.news.wisc.edu/19780>.
Alright, this is the official first post to my first blog. Seeing as this is made for my ENG 101, it will most likely be exclusive to this class, and possibly future college endeavors. Later posts will reveal any information on adjoining blogs or separate blogs of my own creation.
SUSTAINABILITY BEING PRACTICED:
Anyway, to get to the topic on hand, I found an article today dealing with prototype engine being hypothesized and tested in Madison, Wisconsin. According to what I read, the engineering student from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Matthew Carlson, along with associate professor of mechanical engineering Timothy Shedd, have deduced a way to make engines for household appliances such as lawn mowers and generators more efficient and a little more green. Though there are pros and cons to the engine being developed, this shows how much attention the green movement is truly getting. The innovation would be cheap and could be implemented on older generation motors, which would allow for better energy efficiency and less waste on a greater scale. For more, here is a link to the article: <http://www.news.wisc.edu/19780>
"Wisconsin engineer, entrepreneur move ‘green’ diesel engine closer to market." University of Wisconsin - Madison News. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 19 Sep 2011. Web. 20 Sep 2011. <http://www.news.wisc.edu/19780>.
Your blog seems very interesting, it is good to know that people are making the initiative to move towards being green.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What were some of the pros and cons to renovating household appliances to be green?
In the link, they described that by creating a 6-stroke engine compared to the normal 4-stroke engine, this would allow for more heat being dispersed (better efficiency) and more energy coming from this. The pros of renovating household appliances (we are talking generators and lawn mowers) would be that this 6-stroke engine is somewhat cheaper, more efficient in its energy use, and produces less waste in a sound sense (it makes the engine quieter) and a by-product sense. The cons are that because of the extra rotations from the 6-stroke, it will lose some of its power to the friction cycle, and that some of the energy will be lost towards the end (but not as much as would be lost by a conventional engine).
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