Well, believe it or not, I appreciate all comments, positive or negative.
As I said early on part of this is sort of an “outreach”. I have alot of tools and routinely take things apart to fix them, or use my Dremel to manufacture replacement parts for things, or work on cars or motors.
But I simply do not have the extensive machine shop things. Nor do I know about the methods, the benefits or drawbacks of various manufacturing techniques.
But my thought is it is either:
A new idea, AND is feasible, AND it has applications or
it’s not new, it is not feasible, or it has no applications.
But without having even a simple prototype, I’m sorta stuck, and will end up wondering forever.
Just seems to me that the reversal of direction of the pistons in a standard combustion engine isn’t as “smart” an idea as this.
A very simple, passive rotor.
You're correct in that it is an efficiency killer in some ways.
That is why we have turbines. All the the energy is applied in a uniform direction with the effect of turning the rotor. Very efficient when at speed, but with the disadvantage of having no torque at low RPM.
Turbines must run a fairly high speeds which makes them inefficient for cars and such which require a wide range of RPM to function. Yes you can gear it down, but having a turbine spinning at such high speeds all the time, regardless of the power needs of the car is a huge fuel waster. You can drop the turbine RPM while the car is stopped, but then to move again you must wait for the turbine to spin up again due to the lack of torque at low RPM. There actually was a turbine powered car. It didn't perform well for the above mentioned reasons.
Also the exhaust from a turbine is extremely hot, up-wards of 1500 degrees or so. I remember reading an article where Jay Leno was talking about riding a turbine powered motorcycle. He said that if you stopped under a tree, the exhaust, which was directed upward, would set the tree on fire.
So while you're correct in some respects, you have to realize that pure efficiency of the turning rotor is not the entire picture. You must view the efficiency as it is applied to the situation. An efficient way to turn a rotor means nothing if I have now power available at the speeds needed to actually use it. There's a reason cars don't use turbines, and big airplanes don't use piston engines.
What you tried to do is take something from one technology (reciprocating piston) and apply it to a technology (turbine) where it is simply useless. The reversal of the "pistons" in a rotor which is already spinning just has no purpose.
And I don't expect you to just take my word for it either. Like I said, do some more research and take it to an engineer if you have any lingering doubts about my opinion.
Once again, let me encourage you to not give up on you desires to invent something new. But from your comments I can see that you need some education and experience to put your enthusiasm, drive and creative abilities to good use.
I truly believe you are capable of doing something great, and I hope you do. Don't let failures, or even, dare I say, negative people get in your way.