[prisoner6]

Bet there's very little torque. Might make a decent fixed speed engine for a generator.

Interesting, but not holding my breath.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[bigbob]

It looks interesting, but I’m skeptical whenever I see the Next Big Thing described in vague terms illustrated with a fuzzy drawing that lacks detail or a solid technical explanation of the theory of operation. If they have provisional patents filed, why not show and tell instead of having Dr. Norbert drone on and on?

Should create work for a good PR person at least! I’ll stay tuned.

[mylife]

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[SunkenCiv]

And, the guy's only an assistant professor. :') Decades ago, there were a couple of diesel engine designs which never caught on, both were bent in the center, and the rotation of the halves produced the compression. They were mirror images of a sort -- one had the 120° pistons in the middle, the other one had the 120° cylinders in the middle.

It's more usual for ideas of this kind -- good or bad -- to languish.

Thanks Ernest.

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[epithermal]

I am looking for the return of the HVID engine. I once read an old newspaper article that said it could be powered by whipped cream.

[editor-surveyor]

A rotary diesel of sorts?

[dila813]

Wow, another one of these disc engines.

There is another company already selling scaled down versions of a disc engine that they want to launch, so they are pretty far behind.

The other engine design though, didn’t have as much torque but they said it was going to be hooked to a generator to continuously charge a battery and run a motor. The idea was to design an engine that could run at a constant speed with a reliability of years of continuous use.

Think of it as an optimized engine for Volt type cars with backup generator on board.

[Axenolith]

RandCam Engine

[djf]

It’s a Wankel.

I still think my pistons-in-the-disc is a better idea.
My invention.

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