Jones— The ICE is a short-lived feature of transportation technology—with a half -life of ½ that of horses when it came on the scene early in the 1900’s replacing the horses. It will only carry on as an antique power source with minimal-to-no technological improvements.
The modern ICE technology is too hard to maintain and will not catch on in the vast majority of the undeveloped societies. Even in developed western society, it will be considered “old fashioned” and without curb appeal. IMHO direct electrical energy production from non-chemical potential energy sources will arrive quickly with the assistance of AI in the engineering. The normal short term view point of entrepreneurs will not provide productive results with AI in the technology circus. Bob Cook The fRom: Jones Beene<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2018 7:45 AM To: Vortex-l<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Vo]:Microwave ignition - From Germany German technology claiming 30% improvement in mileage using microwaves instead of spark for fuel ignition. https://mwi-ag.com/technik/?lang=en Ex-Porsche CEO thinks microwave ignition can save the combustion engine<https://www.autoblog.com/2018/12/13/microwave-ignition-ex-porsche-ceo/> [https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/YvM2J4eFXPt5YISfbrnDYA--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https:/o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/2560x1440+0+0/resize/800x450!/format/jpg/quality/85/https:/s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2018-12/02a53260-fefa-11e8-afff-4152a07343cf.cf.jpg] [- Description: https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png] Ex-Porsche CEO thinks microwave ignition can save the combustion engine The tech cuts emissions by up to 80 percent. For many years on Vortex there has been occasional mention of generating and using microwaves to power an ICE with no fuel - just air. There had been a claim from an inventor and also mention of this by our moderator - that microwaves could be gainful in some unknown way - presumably by oxidizing nitrogen to form NOx which of course is not a good thing... not to mention, it isn't gainful either (on paper) ... but as always "experiment rules"... Maybe the Porche CEO knows something we don't... or maybe he is a lurker here <g>
