The Wave engine has been posted about before, but I still find it an intriguing idea, especially for something like the Volt that uses gasoline only as a generator, so it's able to run at an optimal efficiency. This type of engine is, seemly, perfect for that kind of application.
I find it interesting that this modern engine is actually significantly less complicated than the 100-year-old engine it's replacing. It seems that technology is often about refining ideas to their simplest form rather than getting more complex (e.g., the Atom is a much simpler CPU than standard x86 processors)
It looks like it's going to be several years before it's commercially viable.
I'm quite fond of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's quote, "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
(And my mistake, didn't see doron's earlier post.)
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[ 20.8 ms ] story [ 62.1 ms ] threadI find it interesting that this modern engine is actually significantly less complicated than the 100-year-old engine it's replacing. It seems that technology is often about refining ideas to their simplest form rather than getting more complex (e.g., the Atom is a much simpler CPU than standard x86 processors)
It looks like it's going to be several years before it's commercially viable.
(And my mistake, didn't see doron's earlier post.)