For several decades now, leftists and envirowhacks have been offering us windmills and kum-bay-ah sessions as alternatives to our real-world energy technologies and infrastructures. Nobody should be surprised that we're still using IC engines and gasoline.
Nonetheless there actually are several alternative energy ideas out there at present which, if put to large-scale use might could make a serious difference:
Carbon fibre, and other space-age materials. The one word you never see in any of these discussions about future vehicle technology is "weight". The small cars of today are typically a thousand pounds heavier than those of 1960 - 1970 and in our present age of super materials, that is unacceptable. Carbon fibre is stronger than steel and at a small fraction of the weight. Arrows made of this stuff can be fired at 400 fps from 75 and 80 lb bows through plywood without harm to the bow or the arrow and cars made of it would regain the thousand pound edge.
One of the items on this page is in the form of an msoft excel spreadsheet made into a demonstration which shows the thing in motion as you simply hold a button down. The power/weight ratio and basic efficiency of this engine are way beyond anything we've seen.
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Bi-Polar Bear
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Wed 5 Nov, 2008 11:55 am
@gungasnake,
you start your post with envirowhacks and leftists and want real dialog. **** you. You lost. You're dismissed. go wander in the desert for 4 (minimum)( years.
You understand that Barack Obama can't fix whatever your problem is, yes??
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farmerman
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Thu 6 Nov, 2008 06:10 am
The MYT engine seems to be a variant of a Wankel no? It has a "hit and miss" type of firing sequence . If Im reading it right, it has several stages of firing and compression in a layered sequence. This is not much different than a rotary engine except that the "rail" contains all the drive mechanisms and there are no pistons.
Are there any reports of testing by any car companies or CAterpillar or Deere?
The chemical sequence of the algae diesel requires that there be a secondary () reactor sequence where the fatty acid is esterified into a final diesel product. The waste stream (as weve been finding from our own FA/CE reactor has been the creation of about 27% glycerine. That reduces the overall volume of the diesel but since its so cheap, its worth mining the glycerine as a by product. One of my guys is looking at a plastic derivative of glycerol.
When looking at this sort of solution - I think what is something we just throw away or even flush down the toliet? Well poop of course. It seems we should be making use of it - a bonus you get rid of something that causes a pollution problem and at the same time you get energy from it.
The MYT engine seems to be a variant of a Wankel no?
A really huge no to that one. The MYT is going to be much more efficient than a Wankel and produce much more power for a given size and weight. The only similarity I can see between the two at all is the accurate use of ports as opposed to valves. The Wankel was never billed as an efficient engine; it was viewed as a sports car engine at a time when mileage was not critical.
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gungasnake
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Fri 7 Nov, 2008 09:17 am
@farmerman,
Best is to open up that excel file I mentioned above and watch the thing work.
You can see it running on numerous youtube videos, looks to be putting out some ungodly amount of power.
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