shockwave rotary wave engine, onlyone moving part

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Sort of like a turbine engine which runs on gasoline. Somehow generates shock compression waves and has no spark plug.? No valves just a rotor which spins inside a housing. I think this rotor has no side seals so it must have a tight machined fit or perhaps just the way it works, as it spins generates compressive waves. I imagine this thing would need to spin really fast. http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Wave_Disk_Engine http://arpa-e.energy.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=8qOZaCUMPBI%3d&tabid=225
 
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All this reads like nirvana, so why not get it done? Lets put the conventional ICE out of business. I have been hoping something new would come along to upset the traditional wasteful old piston engine. And something simple and easy to make. It will have to be simple and easy with demonstrable working engines to convince skeptics. Of course having fewer parts does not only save weight, but also means there are less components that need maintenance, repair, or replacement. This would probably save an end user quite a bit of money. There would be no need for oil changes every 3,000 miles, no need for new spark plugs during tune ups, no need to add anti-freeze, and hopefully fewer embedded computers. Mom and pop car repair garages might actually be able to work on new vehicles again, without thousands of dollars in sophisticated computerized diagnostic equipment! The "greenest" and most ecologically in tune enviro-gurus of our age should also like this engine. Most internal combustion engines (ICE) only convert about 20% of their fuel into energy. [1] The Wave Disk Engine is thought to be able to increase this figure up to 60% or higher. The practical result could be a MPG rating of three to four times that of today's vehicles. In an age of ever increasing gasoline prices, this could help keep the average person's wallet a bit heavier. In addition to all the above benefits, the technology is also claimed to produce 90% less emissions than ordinary internal combustion engines.
 
Dont you wonder that our not so wonderful war mongering oil war based government could be spending the research dollars on this type of technology and thereby massively lower the need for that foreign oil over there.
 
This motor looks a lot like a rotary. And they are less efficient than a piston engine. And if a better means of propelling a car is invented...it'll have little or nothing to do with the govt inventing it. And it's the market that'll determine what is "better". Not the govt.
 
On a contrary, methinks that we should be focusing more on developing a proper transportation infrastructure similar to that of many European countries: i.e. Amsterdam, where lightrail (tram) in the core city area, bicycles back and forth in downtown area, mass transit (trains, etc.) to go to the outer stretch of town, suburbs, etc. not only would us becomes healther (walk/bicycle more), but less impact and reliance on importation and consumption of oil. throughout the history over the past century: there are some civilisations that their economy/infrastructure/society pretty much built on cheep oil and personal mode of transportation. It is inevitable that price of crude oil nowadays has become so high and govts seem to be confront this with a knee-jerk reaction and not thinking this matter from a fundamental point of view. I think it's time to think fresh(outside of the box) and think differently... My 2c's worth. Q.
 
Central planning is what our USA government has become. The E10 fiasco is an easy one to see this. Government mandates everything today. There are regulations and imposed laws and controls on all business and personal life. The recent Solyndra affair is a good example where personal interests were perused by those in power and imposed on the governed without consent. Which tech ultimately failed. But surely some government spending is better than others, so why waste it on war mongering interests?
 
I think this is going to be an overcomplicated multistage turbine, without the reliability as there are so much shocks in the system. 60% efficiency? good luck with that, I'll believe it when I see it. Maybe only at one constant load and speed for indefinite time, build with an infinitely strong and heat tolerant material with frictionless and perfect lubrication.
 
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This motor looks a lot like a rotary. And they are less efficient than a piston engine. And if a better means of propelling a car is invented...it'll have little or nothing to do with the govt inventing it. And it's the market that'll determine what is "better". Not the govt.
Less efficient? 1.3L RX8 232Hp...sure the fuel economy wasn't seller, but it wasn't bottom rung either for the class.
 
like you said THE THING IS SEALS. that is why the IC engine we use works so well, it seals great. just ask the guys that build race engines, theyll tell you sealing is KING.
 
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This motor looks a lot like a rotary. And they are less efficient than a piston engine. And if a better means of propelling a car is invented...it'll have little or nothing to do with the govt inventing it. And it's the market that'll determine what is "better". Not the govt.
Rotaries do not count the whole displacement that they actually have. Only a part. That's because rotaries do not count the whole displacement that they are! Just one 1/3 or so. Less efficient? 1.3L RX8 232Hp...sure the fuel economy wasn't seller, but it wasn't bottom rung either for the class.
 
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That engine's been on BITOG before, maybe 2 or 3 times. I like it, and get how it works. Sealing isn't as big an issue as on traditional piston, rotary piston, wankel etc. It's the "reaction" of the expanding gasses that does the work on the rotor, and a little leakage fore and aft isn't going to change much. The claims of 60% efficiency are laughable, as the degree of expansion offered in the work generating phase of rotation is minimal, and even if the exhaust gasses were expanded down to ambient temperature, 70% is around the absolute theoretical limit.
 
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