On the surface, it looks like the era of the diesel engine is closing.
Yet the idea went nowhere, and the company set up by Toshiba to promote other uses of the Emotion Engine was closed down.Extravagant claims were also made about the RISC, POWER and Transmeta architectures, notes Dean McCarron, a chip analyst at Mercury Research in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Whereas Seedcamp tends to take more fully formed early stage startups on, The Difference Engine is closer to having a hacker mentality.
"The collective cost to the manufacturers of these engines is close to a billion euros," Horner said.
Like the sprawling American prison system itself, the board has come to constitute a robust social reality — albeit one whose contents can't be searched with Google or other engines, since Prison Talk is closed to the unregistered.
It is closed when the engine is cold and as the temperature rises, it opens gradually to allow a full flow of the coolant.
It takes fire engines 30 seconds longer on average to respond to medical emergencies in the six New York City neighborhoods where engine companies were closed last spring, opponents of the closings said yesterday.
Firefighters are taking longer to respond to alarms in six neighborhoods where engine houses were closed this year because of budget cuts, but fire officials insisted yesterday that the impact on public safety was negligible.
At a hearing that grew testy at times, the commissioner clashed with council members over the impact of budget cuts on the department, an emotional issue that has resonated most loudly in parts of New York City where engine companies were closed.
Last May, just before the engine companies were closed, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta told City Council members that the average citywide response time would go up by only one second, Mr. Klein said.
