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What about bombing versus Wildfires?

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Source strangulation for an instant water heater?

  • Jonathan212
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Is Biomass Really Carbon Neutral?

  • russ_watters
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What Is the Big Round Thing on Top of a Nuclear Reactor?

  • ElliotSmith
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Modal Analysis for CE Structures

  • FredGarvin
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Graphical way of sizing a storage tank

  • TSN79
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Building a Digital Goniometer with 2 Seven Segment Displays

  • Ali Inam
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How Can 2D Artificial Evolution Systems Be Improved?

  • longshot_nl
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The correlation between AI and C.V. to these automation systems

  • iii
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How Can I Control Syringe Pressure with Compressed Air and Vacuum Pump?

  • nanomoly
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Ports versus mileage on the ocean - which cost is most significant?

  • Stephen Tashi
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Operator splitting? What is it in the context of transport modeling?

  • bumblebee77
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Acceptable accuracy spec of an hourmeter.

  • Averagesupernova
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Harvesting Load Cell from Food Scale

  • KLoux
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Vacuum suspended fishtank: Why would this design work or not?

  • gazaah
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Is scope drift always a bad thing in project management?

  • Ivan Seeking
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101 question on bus hanging off a cliff - balance

  • tgkprog
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Frustum Pyramid Volume to Design Oil Containment System

  • blimkie.k
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How Tall Can a 273.1 x 12.7 CHS Steel Column Reach with Lateral Support?

  • davidratcliff6255
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Why are some radio broadcasts undetectable by triangulation?

  • GiTS
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Pressure sensors for measuring river flow levels

  • Hemmelig
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Old plumber wisdom, is he right or not?

  • Jonathan212
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Designing a Racking System for Sheet Metal Coils

  • munza
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Wave Runup - Average Reservoir Depth

  • af_231
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How to estimate a constant drag coefficient of a boat?

  • Panos_leof
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4 shop vacuum units in a series-parallel arrangement

  • GENIERE
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Thermal Goggles, X-Ray Goggles, ?

  • nonequilibrium
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Calculating Water Treatment Vessel Size for Condominiums

  • mathsTKK
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Building a high flow rate pulsatile pump

  • feedmeister
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Level survey misclosure error and change point discrepancies

  • tomtomtom1
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How accurate can the shadow of a large sundial be?

  • Jonathan212
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Damping a trampoline on the 2nd floor

  • Rocksolid
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Vertical wind turbine with two concentric rotors

  • tarakan
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Solar pool heating via a dark screen -- On the surface or submerged?

  • mmk8283
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Holding on to your hat, I mean roof

  • DrClaude
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Phenomenon for lip motor boating?

  • yangshi
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Use of a Water-Cooled Diesel Generator as an Off-Grid CHP System

  • Francophile
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Phase shift at resonance in damped harmonic oscillator

  • APUGYael
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Finding x given a 1300-pound force at r1/2 in statics

  • Noah332
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Calculating the Force of a Sound Wave on an Object

  • GBA13
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News Ethiopian Airlines 737 crash discussion

  • Greg Bernhardt
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What Are Pants on a Car?

  • DaveC426913
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Do petroleum engineers struggle with ethical dilemmas?

  • astroman707
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Running multiple studies in COMSOL

  • fkhan
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How Do You Calculate the Safe Work Load of a T Beam?

  • Volantis92
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Single cycle material handling operations in warehouse layout design

  • Amaelle
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Exokat [catsuit exoskeleton] and Simbot 8.4 invention idea?

  • amorphos_b
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Example of a technology that was long underestimated?

  • Marco Masi
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Turing Tumble mechanical computer

  • YoungPhysicist
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Use only a powerful fan without a compressor?

  • vmars316
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Computer Axial Lithography: Just Awesome

  • jedishrfu
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What are these rusty metal pieces in my staircase walls?

  • Wrichik Basu
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Is Frequency Doubling the Secret to Producing Red Light in Laser Pointers?

  • EspangeBob
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Bridge Collapse Genoa - Informed Engineering Perspectives

  • epenguin
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Best Engineering in the Past 100 years

  • anorlunda
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How does cooling to near absolute zero affect clock accuracy?

  • Atari_Me
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Find suitable SI units to work with a Vibration Sensor

  • Robbie64
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What Is It? Update: New Use for a Business Card Holder

  • jtbell
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Celebrating Engineers Week: Inspiring the Next Generation of Engineers

  • gleem
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Acoustic Barrier Fence: Reduce Noise with Sound Absorption

  • Renjithskumar
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How can I accurately transfer a color texture onto a 3d face model?

  • kolleamm
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Refractive Index vs Conductivity

  • kunalvanjare
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Biogas or solar heat storage cooker for rural villages?

  • RaGun
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Modeling reaction forces on a foundation for fences

  • Craig91
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What height can a pressurized N2O cylinder reach at 60 bar?

  • zach_wildmind
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The merger of engineering and economics

  • womfalcs3
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Fabricating a storage room inside a large warhouse

  • Orn
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Force Calculation for bending of TOR steel bars

  • Mradul Jha
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High school solar car team in search of a mentor

  • itnithand
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Feasibility of stratopheric wind turbines?

  • Sherwood Botsford
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(Biomedical Engin.) Fluid flow through a semi-porous membrane (COMSOL)

  • juvel006
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Can saltwater be desalinated with nanobots?

  • AL168
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Units of capacity for the manufacture of flexo printing plates

  • nomadreid
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Coat Insulation Selection for the Snow and Mountaineering

  • seazal
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Which is the most efficient way to dive?

  • Juanmdq
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Why are triple base propellants not used in firearms?

  • chemisthypnos
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Falling Solar Panel Costs: Lessons for Making New Technology Affordable?

  • anorlunda
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Ion Drive of an Airplane - from MIT

  • Tom.G
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Maximum gain possible by sound wave focusing

  • Jonathan212
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FIU pedestrian bridge install left it vulnerable to collapse, WTH

  • Spinnor
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Interpreting the Second Moment of Area and Euler's Formula Values

  • tomtomtom1
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Spatial reasoning in physics and it's importance

  • Jasim
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Protecting UK from Fracking-Induced Earthquakes

  • wolram
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Designing a Wood Truss with Medeek Calculator App

  • medeek
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Cubic Feet of Argon required to fill a tank under vacuum

  • Nathan Smith
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How Can I Account for Wind Loading in Calculating Buckling Load on a Beam?

  • Banana-Man
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Brute force regression software?

  • pslarsen
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A Cautionary Tale on Inventing from the BBC

  • jedishrfu
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Insights Interview with Engineer Mentor anorlunda - Comments

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Free climbing the face of a cliff

  • Thecla
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Calculate lateral force/pressure of a body water

  • Vetmora
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Restrained / unrestrained beam

  • dss975599
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News Job titles for designing and building small electrical and mechanical systems

  • AchillesWrathfulLove
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Wind loads for circular cross-section lattice structures?

  • Vigardo
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Collapse of building #7 on 9/11

  • alantheastronomer
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Why do extra moment equations not count toward a system of equations?

  • Master1022
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Opinions On This 50m Steel Span Bridge Without Supports

  • Point Conception
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