Here's a different one that's outputs electricity rather than mechanical rotation.
The basic engine design we use most often now has the benefit of decades of polish. It's a pretty good sword that has been sharpened to a ludicrous degree. Any alternate design, no matter how great, is going to be dull by comparison. If you apply the same amount of sharpening to a fundamentally superior design, then you might have something that wins out.
And if you believed the videos, the Wankel rotary engine was going to replace everything. Just about every auto maker gave it a try and none could make it work very well. Just look at the this thing, the forces are going every which way. Sure it works, but I think much like the Wankel it will have a ton of little problems that make it commercially unviable.
Here's a different one that's outputs electricity rather than mechanical rotation.
That's a variation on the two-stroke with linear induction instead a rotating crank shaft. I see much potential is this idea for use in hybrids, especially as Toyota has the strongest hybrids. They're almost full electric cars with a gasoline generator.
The basic engine design we use most often now has the benefit of decades of polish. It's a pretty good sword that has been sharpened to a ludicrous degree. Any alternate design, no matter how great, is going to be dull by comparison. If you apply the same amount of sharpening to a fundamentally superior design, then you might have something that wins out.
The thing is, Duke is also taking an old sword and sharpening it; it's just a different old sword to the one everyone else has been using.
The guy I worked with at IBM who raced pretty competitively as his primary hobby had, among all of his other cars, a Mazda RX7 FD. (Rotary engine).
Smooth as silk, super fast and powerful for its weight. It also cost him more in time and money to maintain the motherfucker than most of his other cars combined.
The biggest problem with new engine designs is that you'll have to take it to a special place to get fixed. Every mechanic knows how to fix a standard engine.
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Here's a different one that's outputs electricity rather than mechanical rotation.
The basic engine design we use most often now has the benefit of decades of polish. It's a pretty good sword that has been sharpened to a ludicrous degree. Any alternate design, no matter how great, is going to be dull by comparison. If you apply the same amount of sharpening to a fundamentally superior design, then you might have something that wins out.
Smooth as silk, super fast and powerful for its weight. It also cost him more in time and money to maintain the motherfucker than most of his other cars combined.
It's worth noting that Mazda's 787B is the only car with a non-standard engine to EVER win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_787B