Category Archives: quotations

Twistocaloric Cooling – new refrigeration technology

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Mike Osborn CEng

One fifth of global electricity consumption is from air conditioning and is a significant contributor to global warming. A more environmentally friendly development from the University of Texas has emerged and is based on twisting and untwisting fibres. The method … Continue reading →

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Effectiveness of Cloth Masks against respiratory infections

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Mike Osborn CEng

Cloth masks have been used in healthcare and community settings to protect the wearer from respiratory infections for many years around the world. Masks have two functions: firstly to prevent transmission of respiratory infections from infected person (source) to another … Continue reading →

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Reverse Engineering

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Mike Osborn CEng

A rather counter intuitive title for a blog, but as I have often heard ‘one has to retreat to advance’ ! Reverse engineering in essence is the design process in reverse. The need for reverse engineering arises when one has … Continue reading →

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Integrity in engineering & governance

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Mike Osborn CEng

Jet Engine under test Recent events in the UK and US led me to think about integrity in our world today, especially in places of leadership and governance, and even within our own professions – mine being engineering. Their … Continue reading →

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Covid 19 – hands to the plough

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Mike Osborn CEng

It’s amazing that in challenging and difficult times communities and even professions pull together to combat the ‘enemy at large’ and it’s consequences. At the risk of blowing the trumpet for IMechE, they have informed us of the following: “Our … Continue reading →

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A train that’s ahead by a nose !

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Mike Osborn CEng

ALPHA-X Maglev Trains are accepted to be less polluting than aircraft but to truly rival plane travel as a valid alternative they are being developed to go faster. In Japan they are testing the ALPHA-X which stands for Advanced … Continue reading →

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Metamaterials – world changer

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Mike Osborn CEng

In 2006 Sir John Pendry a physicist invented an ‘invisible cloak’, a nano-engineered material that could bend light waves. This heralded the the beginning of a new class of material that could manipulate the properties of light and do things … Continue reading →

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The WaveFlyer – Electric Hydrofoil Jet-Ski

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Mike Osborn CEng

The WaveFlyer is the world’s first electric hydrofoil jet-ski, developed by an Australian company Electro.Aero, in collaboration with University of Western Australia. Essentially it is a personal craft that ‘flies’ serenely one foot above the water, powered … Continue reading →

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The WaveFlyer – Electric Hydrofoil Jet-Ski

Posted on October 31, 2019 by Mike Osborn CEng

‘V’ Plane

Posted on August 30, 2019 by Mike Osborn CEng

The simple ‘V’ shape still has power to shock us as a plane design, but Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has been developing the concept design recently, backed by Dutch Airline KLM. The design is partially based on … Continue reading →

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