Professional Engineering

Letters

Future of high speed rail

By PE, .

The network I propose would serve more stations along the route and therefore more of the population

Who would buy an electric car?

By PE, .

The claim of zero emissions should be reported to the advertising standards authority as the power has to be generated somewhere

Dimples for planes

By PE, .

For more than a century golf balls have been made with dimpled surfaces. Why don't I see aircraft with similarly dimpled wings and bodies?

Green energy is happening

By PE, .

It is easy to claim that alternatives to fossil and nuclear will never work, just as people thought we would never land on the moon

Changing goal posts

By PE, .

'Snobby' was a term used to describe the IMechE by some who undertook apprenticeships in the 1950’s

A 100-year-old idea

By PE, .

Could the Severn Barrage be made in Britain? The turbines and gates certainly could

Make use of the tidal flow

By PE, .

The Severn is a very silt-laden river so one would expect the useable lifespan of a barrage to be short

No plan A

By PE, .

We need a new nuclear power stations, yet we do not now have the will or ability to build them

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