Never thought id hear about something like this.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42460541/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/new-engine-sends-shock-waves-through-auto-industry/ (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42460541/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/new-engine-sends-shock-waves-through-auto-industry/)
..interesting. Dont think I've quite got my mind around it though :-\
Maybe its an elaborate hoax
Is it April yet?
Nothing of it in operation, that I can find.
Diesel rotary
Couple years debry. I posted about this shock front engine couple years ago Kev!
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-03/shockwave-generating-wave-discs-could-replace-cars-internal-combustion-engines (http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-03/shockwave-generating-wave-discs-could-replace-cars-internal-combustion-engines)
Hmm the thing you link to is from 2011 too. WOnder what ever happened to this thing.
Quote from: Slide Panda on March 28, 2013, 08:18:59 AM
WOnder what ever happened to this thing.
Hang on..... I'll give Ralph Sarich a call ;)
Quote from: Slide Panda on March 28, 2013, 08:18:59 AM
Couple years debry. I posted about this shock front engine couple years ago Kev!
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-03/shockwave-generating-wave-discs-could-replace-cars-internal-combustion-engines (http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-03/shockwave-generating-wave-discs-could-replace-cars-internal-combustion-engines)
Hmm the thing you link to is from 2011 too. WOnder what ever happened to this thing.
Huh, 2011, didn't catch that.
GM probably bought it up and deep sixed it ;D
Quote from: Monsterlover on March 28, 2013, 09:50:49 AM
Huh, 2011, didn't catch that.
GM probably bought it up and deep sixed it ;D
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5299/5404789780_7e4448de75.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26408631@N02/5404789780/)
tinfoil (http://www.flickr.com/photos/26408631@N02/5404789780/#) by nh_painter (http://www.flickr.com/people/26408631@N02/), on Flickr
Cause I didn't catch it came out in 2011?
Quote from: Monsterlover on March 28, 2013, 10:48:29 AM
Cause I didn't catch it came out in 2011?
No...
the GM conspiracy reference.
It was a joke. ;)
Gotcha
Man, imagine an sbk with a lighter frame and a shock engine that weighs very little. It would be like a 130hp 10 speed bike :D
I saw another article that said it shoots a continuous rainbow out the exhaust pipe.
Trouble is, the only fuel it will run on is unicorn tears.
Quote from: Speeddog on March 28, 2013, 11:14:43 AM
Trouble is, the only fuel it will run on is unicorn tears.
They debunked that. The lubricity of the tears was too low. Unicorn blood was determined the proper formulation.
It seems like an advanced version of the Quasiturbine engine. Everything is mechanical in this design tho. Sort of an advanced rotary design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiturbine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiturbine)
I'm not sure that will work well.
They don't even purpose to use refamulated amulite.
Really, how well could it work without that?!?
Quote from: Monsterlover on March 28, 2013, 11:59:02 AM
I'm not sure that will work well.
They don't even purpose to use refamulated amulite.
Really, how well could it work without that?!?
Probably would have unacceptable amounts of side-fumbling.
I'm sayin
Not if they used a secondary supporting sperving bearing.
I had forgotten how awesome the Turbo-Encabulator was. [laugh]
;D
Quote from: Monsterlover on March 28, 2013, 09:50:49 AM
GM probably bought it up and deep sixed it ;D
Exactly, just like the moto czysz. [thumbsdown]
http://motoczysz.com/news/article/introducing_motoczysz_z-line_4_engine (http://motoczysz.com/news/article/introducing_motoczysz_z-line_4_engine)
It looks like a complicated version of a Tesla turbine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine)
Im gonna go get all excited about this thing coming out any day now...is there a way to invest somebody else's money in it?
Looks like a nice idea, but I don't expect anything to come from it for the next several years.
We've had fuel sipping Turbo Diesel engines in Europe for decades now. Thirty or so years ago there was a 9 -1 ratio between gas and diesel cars, high gas prices changed things and now it's closer to 1 - 1.
Things will change when gas prices rise closer to European levels and demand will adjust. [coffee]