Posted on 05/21/2006 3:35:17 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
The bigger Wankel engines are not real gas effiecent.. powerful though.. with high RPM's... Had high hopes though for good/better milage....
This engine could, who knows, "be it"... Probably high rpm's too.. considering the description.. Who knows maybe the exhaust gases could be used for added value in following chambers/stages/cycle..
Easy to be cynical these days.. very easy.. So cynical that "THE" answer could be bypassed.. The story of how we got A/C electric instead of D/C.. is a story of "luck".. Could have taken a good while longer before A/C was adopted as the standard tranmission means/form.. All the scams makes us all cynical to some extent..
But the question is, who's going to put up the likely 10s of billion dollars in R&D money necessary to try and develop this thing up to a useful state where it could actually be competitive (especially cost-wise, but also for durability) with the current types of engines? How much to even just figure out if it has any chance of being viable?
They could start by making very very small electric generators.. Should sell like hotcakes.. Consider how small a engine to do this would be.. and how small the resulting unit would be.. Thats IS if it works at all.. If it does.. Would revolutionize the mobile generator industry..
After a year of that "success" you would have to create a company just to handle ALL the inquiries comeing in to be licensed just for that, so existing generator makers could compete..
Producing the money for designing other larger versions of the engine.. for yet other revolutions in engine powered stuff.. What stuff?.. Sorry I haven't time to begin to list all the possibilities..
ping for later
leak oil?
So does Iraq, but that didn't stop us there neither!
Or, they could have them built in Britain, and it would not only leak oil, but the electrics would go out as soon as the sun set...
Didn't think of that. They would have to make sure Lucas did not mfg the engine. I heard they built refrigerators also and thats why our friends on the other side of the pond "like" warm beer. They got used to it.
I haven't seen any evidence that any working prototype has been built. Has one actually been fired up as in internal combustion engine?
The video I saw was horrible and seemed calculated to hide more than it revealed. What's with the sound track?
As some have pointed out, the Wankel engine works pretty well, but not quite well enough to be a commercial success.
The video I saw was horrible and seemed calculated to hide more than it revealed. What's with the sound track?
You seen what I seen. It looked like the RMP's just instantly stopped, but you can tell the engine was getting way to hot.
I am leaning towards the author of the link I shown where the claims Raphial Morgado is making are based on lack of knowledge.
That was a prototype running on compressed air, not an internal combustion engine.
aww your right.
Wow! That little engine has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen! I would love to have the tools and skills to build stuff like that.
Make sure you watch the video, I loved the lumpy cam !
"the beginning of a new paradigm"
I want money for nothin.....
Indeed! I knew a kid that had a 1970 Road Runner with a 440 six-pack, That little toy engine had the same "chuggga-de-chugga-dechugga".
I would love to have the time/shop/skill to build something like that. Really made my day.
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