[DManA]

Hope this isn’t another Wankel.

[BenKenobi]

Sounds just like a Wankel.

[Tucker39]

My neighbor has a Mazda RX-8 and approximately once a month I see a rollback truck comes and picks it up, and after a few days (of apparent shop work) it brings it back. Must be a real bow-wow!

[hflynn]

BINGO!!!!!

Wankel me once shame on you; Wankel me twice shame on me!

[Spartan79]

Hope this isn’t another Wankel.

My thought exactly. I knew a fellow where I worked who bought one of those Wankel-engined Mazdas, and we used to have a lot of fun at his expense when it refused to start on really cold mornings.

[I still care]

You guys are totally off. DiskWave just sounds so much COOLER than a Wankel.

It’s all in the marketing, you know. :)

[knews_hound]

Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/

[cynwoody]

Hope this isn’t another Wankel.

It sounds more like a new type of gas turbine.

[muawiyah]

The Wankel engine was like the German "flying wings" ~ neither could get up to snuff due to some inherent instabilities ~ THAT COULD ONLY BE OVERCOME WITH COMPUTER PROCESSING CONTROLS.

Today our most effective stealth fighters and bombers are little more than computer flown flying wings!

This does look like the basic Wankel idea ~ the rotating chambers are a dead giveaway, but the fuel and airflow are different and it seems to use diesel like compression to fire ~ so I'd look for the equivalent of the GLOWPLUG ~ otherwise it's not a diesel.

I'd also check out the computer controls on this sucker ~ probably one major processor rotating around with each firing chamber ~ a logical extension of CLOUD COMPUTING without all the fluff.