US Navy Orders Two Additional Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton Drones for $267M

The United States Department of Defense has announced a contract with Northrop Grumman for the purchase of two additional MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles. The agreement, valued at USD 267.2 million, will see the aircraft delivered to the US Navy’s maritime aviation fleet by October 2028. The contract includes full funding at the time of […]

Turning Car and Helicopter Exhaust into Thermoelectric Energy

Combustion engines, the engines in gas-powered cars, only use a quarter of the fuel’s potential energy while the rest is lost as heat through exhaust. Now, a study published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces demonstrates how to convert exhaust heat into electricity. The researchers present a prototype thermoelectric generator system that could reduce fuel […]