Engine in sentence

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Without my realizing it, this limitation that language has became an engine that propelled me to perfect the tools with which I could express myself.

The fuel cell looked great: one-tenth as many moving parts, a fuel-cell propulsion system as an internal combustion engine, and it emits just water.

So we embarked upon the reinvention around an electrochemical engine, the fuel cell, and hydrogen as the energy carrier.

We're talking about obsoleting the internal combustion engine, and doing it in terms of affordability at scale volumes, its performance and its durability.

For some of us, confidence is a revolutionary choice, and it would be our greatest shame to see our best ideas go unrealized and our brightest dreams go unreached all because we lacked the engine of confidence.

Interestingly enough, in other countries, it will be the Minister of Finance who sees it as an engine of economic growth.

And that engine is going to see the results in 20 years.

If that single-stability system, that brain that flies that aircraft, fails, or if the engine fails, that vehicle crashes.

Fortunately, Dr. Felix Wankel invented the rotary engine.

Wonderful engine.

In that application, it generates one horsepower per pound, which is twice as good as your car engine today, but only half of what we need.

My company has spent 35 years and many millions of dollars taking that rotary engine, which was invented in the late '50s, and getting it to the point that we get over two horsepower per pound, reliably, and critical.

And we have actually flown this vehicle and lost an engine, and continued to hover.

And I was building a Stirling engine over on the lathe, and all the motorcycle guys said, "You're building a bong, aren't you?"

And I said, "No, it's a Stirling engine."

I sold the plans for this engine and for this dish in the back of "Popular Science" magazine, for four dollars each.

So we tried to look at all the different heat engines that have been used in history to convert sunlight or heat to electricity, And one of the great ones of all time, James Watt's steam engine of 1788 was a major breakthrough.

James Watt didn't actually invent the steam engine, he just refined it.

He added new linear motion guides to the pistons, he added a condenser to cool the steam outside the cylinder, he made the engine double-acting, so it had double the power.

So we looked at this engine, and this had some potential.

Another type of engine is the hot air engine.

And the hot air engine also was not invented by Robert Stirling, but Robert Stirling came along in 1816 and radically improved it.

But after the Stirling engine, Otto came along, and also, he didn't invent the internal combustion engine, he just refined it.

He showed it in Paris in 1867, and it was a major achievement because it brought the power density of the engine way up.

You could now get a lot more power in a lot smaller space, and that allowed the engine to be used for mobile applications.

So, once you have mobility, you're making a lot of engines because you've got lots of units, as opposed to steam ships or big factories, so this was the engine that ended up benefiting from mass production where all the other engines didn't.

So after looking at these three, and 47 others, we concluded that the Stirling engine would be the best one to use.

The internal combustion engine took off because weight mattered, because you were moving around.

Normally, efficiency is crucial because the fuel cost of your engine over its life dwarfs the cost of the engine.

But if your fuel source is free, then the only thing that matters is the up-front capital cost of the engine.

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