For instance, when you do combustion studies, flames on Earth burn in a teardrop fashion because the air comes in from underneath it and feeds the flame, but we can't do that here since the air doesn't know where up is, there's no convection.

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Titan will be primarily used for materials research, nuclear energy research, and studies of ways to make combustion engines more efficient.

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Some studies indicate it takes more than five times as long to sell a hybrid than a traditional internal combustion engine model, which may explain one of the many reasons why hybrid sales are not growing above 3.5% of the market.

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