It gets depressing from time to time, waiting for the world to end and all but the trade magazines are in. It seems there is a new take on an old concept, the internal combustion engine.
The specs on this engine are impressive. The prototype has a displacement of 850 cubic inches. Fourteen inches in diameter, 14 inches long and weighs in at 150 pounds. It fires 16 times in one revolution and needs no valves in it's operation. The parts count to the engine is 25. The piston skirts apparently are not needed in this design. The claim is that only the piston rings contact the cylinder walls making friction losses much less.
The inventor says a 4.5 inch diameter would have 2.4 liter displacement and weigh about 35 pounds.
Mostly I give you links and things to think about that are of a serious nature. Ya, that's politics. The internal combustion engine has been around for a very, very long time yet here is a new take on this old concept.
I've spent many years working with some very great scientists and I do think that if we can survive we are on the verge of great things. Yes, I did say if, which right now still looks really black but....
I have seen several Japanese patents on remarkable efficiency increases for electric motors. From the dawn of the industrial age patents were even issued for perpetual motion machines. Any scientist will tell you this is total nonsense and that there is no such thing. In the time I have spent researching though I do think it does exist. Energy is just a difference of potential, the problem is how do you tap into it.
We have been making internal combustion engines for almost 100 years, mostly the same way. What is different? Computers, easy 3D modeling of potential parts nad new thinking for an old idea.
If you are interested just to whet your interest search out a few of these keywords.
Black Light Power
Philio T Farnsworth
Nicola Tesla
And just to be true to my nature.
Eugene Mallove.