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Shockwave-Generating Wave Discs Could Replace Internal Combustion Engines
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| 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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To: SVTCobra03
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:56:13 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
It'll never top one of these:
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:56:13 PM PDT
by
Emperor Palpatine
(Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
To: Red Badger
Not to be confused with the Whizzenator.
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:56:13 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: Red Badger
Brown Boveri proposed Wave Rotors in the early 1940s as a compression stage for Brayton cycle machines (um, jet engines) and there have been many attempts at making the whole thing useful since then. They do sell stationary turbines with a variant of the original Wave Rotors I think.
Anyway, not a new idea, but definitely cool and hopefully timely.
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:56:42 PM PDT
by
Regulator
(Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
To: Red Badger
One for each wheel. Wonder if they could make them with spinners.
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:57:21 PM PDT
by
wolfman
To: red tie
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:57:44 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: tet68
He was so secretive a genius, I would not doubt it...............
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posted on
03/18/2011 12:59:41 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
It’s spinning a fuel and air mixture not just air but your point is valid.....very much like a supercharger in construction....
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:00:08 PM PDT
by
nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: wolfman
![](http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-spinners/album-the-very-best-of-the-spinners.jpg)
I'm sure they would sell..............
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:01:31 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
I’m actually a mechanical engineer by training and I follow valveless pulsejets, ramjet and pulse detonation engine technology for myself. Getting a “shock wave” rotor to do what it should theoretically do is always a bear. If it were simple, I’d already have a few patents.
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:02:36 PM PDT
by
DaxtonBrown
(HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
To: DaxtonBrown
Two questions:
Low end torque
and
RPMs...........
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:05:03 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
Thanks. I was missing the connection between this being a rotor engine to generate electricity.
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:06:08 PM PDT
by
red tie
To: JoeProBono
2.5 million for a copy of the turbine fan section of a Spencer Dust Collector? WTF!
Neat idea, which I think of every time I replace bearings and packing in them. Better have one hell of a main shaft and bearing set.
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:08:36 PM PDT
by
blackdog
To: DaxtonBrown
To: massgopguy
Like the Wankel, seals and gaskets are the problem or like a turbine, it only has one speed.
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:10:42 PM PDT
by
Razzz42
To: DaxtonBrown
Wouldn’t it require high RPMs before the “shockwave” could be obtained??.. like spinning up a jet engine before ignition ???
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:11:21 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: Red Badger
I’m cool with it, so long as it can develop 300 hp and enough torque to get my SUV out of the mud and over the rocks.
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:12:03 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
To: Nevadan
This doesn’t matter as much as you may think. Energy for transportation is only about 20% of the total consumed.
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:12:22 PM PDT
by
achilles2000
("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
To: massgopguy
“They could call it The Wankel Rotary Engine.......”
Das 1967 NSU Ro 80
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSU_Ro_80
Rotary engines have so far had poor fuel economy.
There are several emerging new technologies.
To: PhiloBedo
It’ll haveta be a hybrid...............
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posted on
03/18/2011 1:13:54 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.)
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