JoshPlumSE
Structural
- Aug 15, 2008
- 9,738
I've heard a lot about this new liquid piston engine and how it's so much more light weight than conventional engines and is 20 or 30% more efficient.
DEFINITELY not my area of expertise. I read a little bit about it. It sounds very similar conceptually to an inverted Wankel. But, instead of a triangular rotor in an oval chamber, it's a oval rotor in a triangular chamber. They talk about how they prevented a number of the issues that you see with a Wankel.
Not a "solution" to Global Warming. But, it sounds like the kind of step forward that has the potential to help. By increasing the efficiency of some existing systems (especially diesel).
DEFINITELY not my area of expertise. I read a little bit about it. It sounds very similar conceptually to an inverted Wankel. But, instead of a triangular rotor in an oval chamber, it's a oval rotor in a triangular chamber. They talk about how they prevented a number of the issues that you see with a Wankel.
Not a "solution" to Global Warming. But, it sounds like the kind of step forward that has the potential to help. By increasing the efficiency of some existing systems (especially diesel).
