Engineering stories whose deep dive explains energy and efficiency, ready to use as a starter, a reading task or a real-world example. Each one links to the GCSE and A level curriculum.
Automotive & TransportInnovation
Parallel Systems has raised $100M to deploy its autonomous electric railcar, a battery-powered freight vehicle that runs on existing tracks without a locomotive or…
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
Endurance Energy has generated electricity from a geothermal well drilled 1,500 metres beneath the Pacific Ocean, the first offshore geothermal power system ever deployed.
Deep dive: The Organic Rankine Cycle and Subsea Power Generation
Construction & Infrastructure
Arup leads the engineering team designing the UK's first small modular reactor at Wylfa, where three Rolls-Royce SMRs will generate 1.5 GWe of clean…
Deep dive: Building Nuclear Power in Sections
Automotive & Transport
LKAB deploys 120-tonne battery-electric mining trucks from Scania at its Malmberget iron ore mine, operating over 1,250 metres below ground.
Deep dive: Electrifying the heaviest vehicles on earth
Construction & Infrastructure
How Jones Bros used 66,500 tonnes of Welsh rock armour to build the Kinmel Bay coastal defence, protecting 2,000+ homes from the sea.
Deep dive: How Rock Armour Absorbs a Storm
Aerospace, Defence & Marine
Airbus and MTU Aero Engines are building the first hydrogen fuel cell aircraft engine for commercial aviation. Here's how the technology works.
Deep dive: how a hydrogen fuel cell aircraft engine actually works
Construction & Infrastructure
China's 1GW Hami molten salt solar plant combines PV and concentrated solar to generate electricity eight hours after sunset.
Construction & InfrastructureInnovation
Engineers have developed force-regulating fuses that prevent building collapse propagation, isolating damage like an electrical fuse before it cascades.
Deep dive: Progressive Collapse, Structural Mechanics, and the Design of Force-Regulating Fuses
Automotive & Transport
Tesla's Cybercab achieves 165 Wh/mi, making it the most efficient EV ever certified. The engineering behind the record reveals how mass reduction and aerodynamics…
Deep dive: The physics of EV efficiency
Energy & EnvironmentInnovation
A Rolls-Royce small modular reactor contract has been signed for three 470MW units at Wylfa, Anglesey, creating 8,000 jobs and powering 3 million homes.
Deep dive: Inside the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor
Construction & Infrastructure
The East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm has installed its first turbine featuring 115-metre blades, the longest ever manufactured in the UK.
Deep dive: How East Anglia THREE offshore wind turbines generate power
Energy & EnvironmentBreakthroughs
KIT engineers built a compressorless hydrogen gas turbine that ran for 303 seconds, beating NASA's record and generating electricity without mechanical compression.
Deep dive: Gas Turbines