The Insane Engineering of the P-47 Thunderbolt

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Are Space Elevators Possible?

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How Are Highway Speed Limits Set?

From Practical Engineering. Exploring the relationship between speed, safety, and geometry of roadways. Get a $25 credit when you sign up at http://practicalengineering.ting.com Although many of us are regular drivers, we rarely put much thought into roads. That’s on purpose. If you’re thinking about the roadway itself at all while you’re driving, it’s probably because…

Titanium – The Metal That Made The SR-71 Possible

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The Economics of Nuclear Energy

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Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?

From Practical Engineering. Explaining how earthwork works, and why road construction often takes so long. Sign up for Brilliant for free at www.brilliant.org/PracticalEngineering and get 20% the annual premium subscription! Like it or not, roads are part of the fabric of society. Travel is a fundamental part of life for nearly everyone. Unfortunately, that means…

The Insane Engineering of the A-10 Warthog

The Truth About 5G

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What Is a Culvert?

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The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird

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The Surprising Efficiency of Canal Locks

From Practical Engineering. People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big business. “Shipping” got its name for a reason, and we still use ships to move a lot of our…

A Guide To Designing Low-Cost Ventilators for COVID-19

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Why Was Normandy Selected For D-Day?

From Real Engineering. In the debut episode of the Logistics of D-Day we explore the logic and planning that resulted in Normandy being chosen as the location for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of human kind. Get a year of both Nebula and Curiosity Stream for just 11.99 here: http://www.CuriosityStream.com/realengineering and using the…

Will New York Be Underwater by 2050?

Why Pipes Move Underground

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Is 100% Renewable Possible By 2050? – Interconnectors

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Which Is The Most Dangerous Car?

What is Air Lock?

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The Real Flying Saucer

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Compress Air with No Moving Parts! – Trompe

From Practical Engineering. A brief overview of this ingenious method of compressing air using only the power of water. Explore your creativity and get 2 free months of Skillshare premium membership: https://skl.sh/practicalengineering5 The way a trompe harnesses the power of water to generate compressed air with no moving parts is fascinating and its use is…

Why Elon Musk Created Neuralink (feat. Real Science)

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How Planes Survive High-Gs

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How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?

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Can Underwater Turbines Solve Our Energy Problems?

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How Power Blackouts Work

From Practical Engineering. Exploring the protective systems that keep the power grid from self destructing. Get 9 free meals from HelloFresh at https://bit.ly/2pZsuRa and use code Practical9 at checkout. We usually think of the power grid in terms of its visible parts: power plants, high-voltage lines, and substations. But, much of the complexity of power…

World’s Largest Batteries – (Pumped Storage)

From Practical Engineering. The vast majority of our grid-scale storage of electricity uses this clever method. Electricity faces a fundamental problem that comes with pretty much any product that’s provided on-demand: our ability to generate large amounts of it doesn’t match up that closely with when we need it. The storage of electricity for later…

How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?

From Practical Engineering. Discussing some of the fascinating engineering that goes into overhead electric power transmission lines. Get $80 off your first month of HelloFresh (with code Practical80): https://bit.ly/2VGUxzl In the past, power generating plants were only able to serve their local areas. As power plants grew larger and further away from populated areas, the…

How Do Substations Work?

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How Electricity Generation Really Works

From Practical Engineering. Continuing the series on the power grid by diving deeper into the engineering of large-scale electricity generation. Get $80 off your first month of Hello Fresh (with code Practical80): https://bit.ly/2VGUxzl The importance of electricity in our modern world can hardly be overstated. What was a luxury a hundred years ago is now…

How Does the Power Grid Work?

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How Do Spillways Work?

From Practical Engineering. The first 500 people to click get 2 months of Skillshare Premium free: http://skl.sh/practicalengineering4 We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we need it downstream or the…

How Do Traffic Signals Work?

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