Re: [Vo]:Tooo obvious for Detroit?
I corresponded with an inventor who had a patent on an engine design that sounded similar to this. R C Macaulay wrote: Interesting thinking Jones. A proposed valveless, pistonless engine/motor concept is being studied whereas the engine is ring shaped and drives a cluster of embedded cavity discs positioned with the ring. The design approach Jones wrote, The following suggestion, or a version of it, will be implemented by some perceptive auto manufacturer in the coming years. --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---
Re: [Vo]:Re: Tooo obvious for Detroit?
I can't allow the denigration of engineers in the automotive industry continue. I had a friend who was an engineering manager in Detroit and he said that the reason they built $hitty cars was management and marketing. The engineers battled constantly for design and manufacturing standards only to be overcome by money margins and maniacal marketing mangers. One of the most successful cars ever built, the Mustang, was done so by an engineer. Terry
Re: [Vo]:Tooo obvious for Detroit?
Howdy Thomas, There is a far step from an inventor and an engineer- design team. Mention the word inventor and we run. Mention the inventors' work is patented and we duck our head waiting for the noise sure to follow. All engine designs that perform useful work are similar. The difference between them are people. Some engines like Cummins diesel have what it takes, Detroit diesel don't have it. It will take some real work to get Cummins to change. THe Wankel rotary is an example of designers that love to play smartypants. They finally got a perfectly useless engine to work. Down the road aways comes the battery operated jalopy made of bicycle components... try applying this technology to high speed diesel motor trucks and discover why we need new motor fuels that fuel 500-800 HP truck engines and Cat dozers. Hoss power is horse manure.. torque is what a mule's got in his rear. This world needs a whole new stable of advanced radical engine designs for work engines just like we need energy efficent autos. Richard I corresponded with an inventor who had a patent on an engine design that sounded similar to this. R C Macaulay wrote: Interesting thinking Jones. A proposed valveless, pistonless engine/motor concept is being studied whereas the engine is ring shaped and drives a cluster of embedded cavity discs positioned with the ring. The design approach Jones wrote, The following suggestion, or a version of it, will be implemented by some perceptive auto manufacturer in the coming years.
[Vo]:Significant advance for biofuel
Here is a dewatering membrane which appears to be in prototype production now - useful as an alternative to distillation, for enriching alcohol: http://.vaperma.com/industrial_applications/ethanol.php?lang=en ... this type of membrane should work even better for enriching butanol than ethanol, since that alcohol molecule is significantly larger. A Canadian plant using this technique is scheduled to open this year. Butanol, as mentioned many time here, is far superior to ethanol. Fortunately, the manufacturing infrastructure is almost completely interchangeable, even hot swappable to borrow a phrase. Bio-butanol from non-food biomass like cellulose is looking more and more like the sustainable and carbon-neutral transportation fuel of the future. Until then, we are stuck with ethanol.
