[chooseascreennamepat]

BS BS BS BS. repeat 1000 times

[DManA]

“Supercritical” sounds like a synonym for cranky.

[Billthedrill]

Fascinating. BTT.

[reg45]

So! If we combine the two technologies (hybrid and transonic fuel injection) the car will get 100 mpg.

[WOBBLY BOB]

I have one on the shelf next to the super-carb I bought at in the 1950’s at an estate sale for a GM exec.

[count-your-change]

It appears to be s system for putting the fuel near the spark at the time of firing. sounds promising.

[Onelifetogive]

Transonic Combustion, based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a gasoline fuel injection system that can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 50 to 75 percent...

And if they put some of those tornado thingies in the intake, they can get like 100% or more!

[Onelifetogive]

that can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by 50 to 75 percent, beating the fuel economy of hybrid vehicles.

Do we actually trust auto news from someone who does not know that a hybrid has a gasoline engine?

[chrisser]

TSCi Fuel Injection achieves lean combustion and super efficiency by running gasoline, diesel, and advanced bio-renewable fuels on modern diesel engine architectures

I read this as they're running gasoline in a diesel engine, but maybe I misunderstand.

[HighWheeler]

Impossible.

This scheme’s only intent is to extract money from morons (read: Congressmen) who don’t have the faintest idea of Physics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Engine Cycles, Carnot Cycles, etc.

[wita]

Physics probably controls the fuel air mixture which is a constant for combustion as I understand it. No amount of buzzwords can change physics.

PS I will willingly retract my statement in relation to the discovery if it proves viable.

[Yardstick]

A 50 or 75 percent improvement would probably put a gas engine beyond its theoretical max efficiency.

[kik5150]

I think what they are doing is making the fuel explode instead of burn. In a normal IC engine the fuel burns. If it explodes, or detonates, it produces the pinging sound and can destroy the engine.

[Waverunner]

The real solution

[SampleMan]

But I have the same thing that I built in my garage, and it burns water...

Seriously, where do these stories come from. If this were true, they wouldn’t be peddling stories, they would be gearing up for mass production.

The follow up to this story will be that these guys in black suits showed up and confiscated the only prototype, which can’t be recreated.

[neverdem]

BTTT!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon. With anything like this it is necessary to A) prove reliability, B) prove it can be built reliably on an assembly line, and C) retain vicious attorneys. Nearly thirty years ago, Yunick’s adiabatic system used a combo of patented and proprietary things to build a 60 mpg three cylinder that had satisfactory performance; Ray Gorte prototyped a hydrocarbon-direct fuel cell; what do we have instead? Basically bupkis.

[dangerdoc]

The claims remain to be proven but my understanding that the major problem keeping super lean burning engines off the road is emmisions. Specifically NOs.

What they are claiming does not break the rules of thermodynamics but may break the rules of the EPA.