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Shockwave-Generating Wave Discs Could Replace Internal Combustion Engines
Popular Science ^
| 03.16.2011 at 2:14 pm
| By Rebecca Boyle
Posted on 03/18/2011 12:45:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Wave Disc
Courtesy Auto Rambler
To: sully777; vigl; Cagey; Abathar; A. Patriot; B Knotts; getsoutalive; muleskinner; sausageseller; ...
New engine design Ping!................
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:46:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
Here comes the Sun King...
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:48:27 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 786 of our national holiday from reality. - It's never 3 AM at the White Hut)
To: Red Badger
Any info on cost, horsepower and torque?
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:48:49 PM PDT
by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
To: Red Badger
Cool...looking at it...where to I bolt on the supercharger?
I need more power!!
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:49:20 PM PDT
by
nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: Red Badger
Cool. I want one. My gas bills are driving me to the poor house!
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:49:27 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
(Protect and Defend America! End the practice of islam on our shores before it's too late!)
To: Red Badger
the little blurb in the article...
“...Michigan State University showed off the new motor prototype at a meeting with the Department of Energys Advanced Research Projects Agency.”
I suspect this was about strangling the baby in the cradle .....
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:50:56 PM PDT
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
To: SVTCobra03
Couldn’t have much torque to speak of.
They are looking at it being a generator motor for electric hybrids...............
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:51:13 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
Wouldn’t that be great? We could finally be in a position to not have to buy oil from the Muslim countries.
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:52:13 PM PDT
by
Nevadan
To: Red Badger
To: SVTCobra03
Cost would be minimal. Looks like it could be manufactured by the mold process..............
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:52:59 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
Schematic model of a wave disk engine, showing combustion and shockwaves within the channels
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:53:45 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: drypowder
Fingernails on a chalkboard to anyone against US energy independence.
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:53:53 PM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 786 of our national holiday from reality. - It's never 3 AM at the White Hut)
To: drypowder
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:54:13 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
They could call it The Wankel Rotary Engine.......
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:54:20 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: Red Badger
Mrs. Mad has a clock on the wall that looks just like that.
To: Red Badger
It sounds like a simple diesel engine yet they also use the term generator in this article.
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:54:45 PM PDT
by
red tie
To: nevergore
It looks like it IS a Supercharger................
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:55:11 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
Didn’t Tesla have some kind of spinning disc machine?
Some kind of fan or air compressor?
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:55:48 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: JoeProBono
Hey, that’s the water pump in my truck!
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