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To: Red Badger
Here's a fairly decent YouTube video presentation, but this guy seems like a rah-rah booster. He does a good job explaining how the mechanism works and has prepared some good animations.

This big problem that I see are the sliding valve seals. Rotating sleeve seals have always been the Achilles heel of many designs compared to poppet valves in a conventional ICE engine.

Liquid cooling would appear to be a serious challenge, too.

When I first saw this design I thought "the rotating mass will act as a flywheel eliminating the external flywheel." The narrator of this video makes that point.

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36 posted on 06/10/2024 2:55:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“When I first saw this design I thought “the rotating mass will act as a flywheel eliminating the external flywheel.””

Is balance / vibration going to be an issue with the reciprocating piston or is it naturally damped out somehow?


38 posted on 06/10/2024 2:58:06 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Check your link


39 posted on 06/10/2024 3:10:30 PM PDT by TexasGator
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