Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a novel ...

When stretched or compressed, it exhibits a reversible temperature change (ΔT) that’s 20 times greater than that of ...

The Carnot compressor uses a strange centrifugal process to vastly cut down the number of moving parts in the device. It's inspired, the team tells me, by a sixteenth-century device called a ...

Its highest possible value was discovered by Carnot in 1824 and is a cornerstone concept in thermodynamics. It led to the discovery of the second law and to the definition of the Kelvin ...

Based on the the heat pump-organic rankine cycle, scientists in Portugal have created six different models of Carnot batteries for stationary storage. They investigated 16 different combinations of ...

[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] LYONS, June 25. — The assassination of President Carnot took place practically in daylight at Lyons last evening. He was being entertained at a grand banquet by the ...