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dcfirefighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 04:58 PM
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18. Originally used at the Niagra Falls
generating station, currently (i think) used as a concrete pump.

I don't think that it ever got off the ground as an internal combustion engine (It worked, but eventually the disks got hot and deformed - spinning out thinner and wider until jamming against the outer case). I wonder if new materials science could handle it. Apparently it's a fairly popular home machine shop project.

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  - more fuel-efficient engine design...  wli   Aug-22-05 07:10 PM   #1 
  - Are those segmented flywheels?  Old and In the Way   Aug-22-05 07:11 PM   #2 
  - Read about it on the website. It's fairly easy to understand.  Canuckistanian   Aug-22-05 07:26 PM   #7 
  - It is essentially a Wankel Engine, but with four sides rather than three.  Massacure   Aug-22-05 10:17 PM   #11 
     - They're both inferior to my new five-sided design!  phantom power   Aug-23-05 11:46 AM   #15 
  - An idea behind it's time  Maple   Aug-22-05 07:11 PM   #3 
  - Not exactly  dcfirefighter   Aug-22-05 07:20 PM   #4 
  - You wish  Maple   Aug-22-05 07:25 PM   #6 
     - Ooh, your logical and eloquent argument has won me over n/t  dcfirefighter   Aug-22-05 07:40 PM   #8 
        - LOL that's because  Maple   Aug-22-05 07:55 PM   #9 
           - It'll run on oil, diesel, gasoline, alcohol, methane, hydrogen  dcfirefighter   Aug-22-05 08:31 PM   #10 
           - Hey, don't laugh at the Steamers!  htuttle   Aug-24-05 05:09 PM   #21 
  - Can you explain your opinion?  phantom power   Aug-23-05 10:50 AM   #13 
  - Impressive. Is anyone working on this?  Canuckistanian   Aug-22-05 07:24 PM   #5 
  - There's also a stirling variant.  skids   Aug-22-05 10:36 PM   #12 
  - Look at it this way:  phantom power   Aug-23-05 11:41 AM   #14 
     - Sortof...  skids   Aug-23-05 12:25 PM   #16 
  - The performance characteristics sound similar to the Tesla turbine design  htuttle   Aug-23-05 04:46 PM   #17 
     - Originally used at the Niagra Falls  dcfirefighter   Aug-23-05 04:58 PM   #18 
        - I've been planning to build a small steam-driven one  htuttle   Aug-23-05 05:06 PM   #19 
           - Just wish I had a machine shop at home...  dcfirefighter   Aug-23-05 07:08 PM   #20 
 

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