Is there a new, more efficient type of engine coming?

[BrianDamage]

Interesting article. Link

 

[NightSwimmer]

Looks like an innovative variation on the wankel design. Maybe they can overcome the wear and lubrication issues. Mazda never could.

 

[BrianDamage]

I was thinking it seems like a variation on the Engineair engine. But I can see the similarity to the Wankel engine, as well.

 

[fairsheet]

One thing I've gotta call bullshit on, is the claim that it can reduce fuel consumption by 75% AND reduce greehouse gas emissions by 90%. I'm not seeing how it can reduce the latter by more than the former.

Anyway.....this technology confronts the same issue any new tech would, as compared to piston-tech. Piston tech - having been around as long as it has, has achieved a level of reliability that no new tech can hope to match - at least at the outset. Consumers have come to expect and demand a certain level of reliability/longevity and it's difficult to convince a mass market to be guinea pigs.

 

[gabriel]

Interesting article. Link

FOUR TIMES the efficiency?? that would make it 100 to 120% efficient!!

 

[gabriel]

FOUR TIMES the efficiency?? that would make it 100 to 120% efficient!!

ah, they mean FUEL efficiency not thermal efficiency. ok.

 

[BrianDamage]

One thing I've gotta call bullshit on, is the claim that it can reduce fuel consumption by 75% AND reduce greehouse gas emissions by 90%. I'm not seeing how it can reduce the latter by more than the former.

Anyway.....this technology confronts the same issue any new tech would, as compared to piston-tech. Piston tech - having been around as long as it has, has achieved a level of reliability that no new tech can hope to match - at least at the outset. Consumers have come to expect and demand a certain level of reliability/longevity and it's difficult to convince a mass market to be guinea pigs.

Actually, I had that same thought about emissions and efficiency. I won't say that it can never be done, but I can't see how you'd manage it.