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This is basically a variant of the Wankel engine, and if you do a cursory view of the Wankel engine wikipeida page it paints a pretty clear picture of a theoret
by cwmma 3y ago
This is basically a variant of the Wankel engine, and if you do a cursory view of the Wankel engine wikipeida page it paints a pretty clear picture of a theoretically better engine that ends up not performing as well as standard engines due to a 1000 little things like the seals, ignition and chamber shape that have been perfected over the century + of normal engine designs. This engine is going to have all those problems and more preventing it from being as good as a regular engine in practice.
- ilyt 3y agoIt does solve few of them, althought it doesn't look it will be easy to scale to more than one engine. For example the apex seals being on "the outside" instead of on the rotating assembly means they could be made easier to replace and easier to oil too. But yeah, improvements look not all that big, certainly not revolution