New "Shockwave" Engine Design Solves Energy Crisis

[Dhatz]

im getting more and more annoyed by every invention that doesnt drastically improve storage of electricity per mass. At least somone made a engince that looks and works scifi but is actual(which means byby lame obsolete blocks in hybrids).

 

[Twilight_guy]

We've finally reached the point where people realize the engine's ridiculously low efficient won't fly? thank god. I mean really 85% of energy lost is just terrible. You don't even need to aim for high efficient here, just getting as poultry 50% would zoom circles around the old model.

 

[godfist88]

Why did I see the word 'engine' and automatically think of something you base a game off of and not what you use to power a car?

maybe because this is a gaming website?

 

[Idlemessiah]

Why did I see the word 'engine' and automatically think of something you base a game off of and not what you use to power a car?

Damn yeah =/

OT: This won't stop the oil running out and it won't reduce petrol prices. If anything they'll make "Shockwave brand" fuel and market at +50% the price of regular gas.

Go Google Honda Clarity. Somebody needs to start chucking some money at that.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

Why did I see the word 'engine' and automatically think of something you base a game off of and not what you use to power a car?

That's exactly what I thought. Maybe it's because I don't drive because I don't need to, or I need to play less games.

EDIT: PS sorry, I've just realised how many people are quoting you. Bet that's annoying.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

I'm sorry, but I'm getting more annoyed about every little invention that 'solves the X crisis' while still using oil.

No people, recycling or Shockwaving isn't saving the world, its just not screwing it up as fast. End of!

Slowing it down is the first step to reversing the damage done, glass half full out looks didn't get us here and it won't get us to solving the worlds problems.

 

[Johann610]

Reads like that "static electricity engine" from "Atlas Shrugged."

 

[rsvp42]

Reduces petrol consumption by 90%? IE, 10 times most efficient than what we have now?

According to this article, current engines are only 15% efficient...doesn't this mean that this engine is 150% effective? Um...

If one engine design gets 50mpg and a new one gets 125mpg, that's a 150% increase in fuel-efficiency. Math.

Which, is all very well, except it has nothing to do with what I'm talking about.

According to the article, current engines are 15% efficient, that is, they use only 15% of the total energy present in the fuel they consume. For each unit of total energy, they only get 0.15 units of energy they actually use, the rest being wasted. From 10 units, you get 1.5 in usuable energy, and so on.

For this engine to cut fuel consumption by 90%, it has to be able to get the same energy output from 1 unit of fuel the old one did with 10, that is, it has to be 10 times more efficient than the old sort of engines.

So, instead of needing 10 units of total energy to get 1.5 units of usable energy, you only need 1, given you an efficiency of 150%.

I read your comment wrong, apparently.

 

[DTWolfwood]

Sweet so make a working engine that produces some HP and Torque numbers and compare it to an existing engine and see how the figures stack up.

otherwise color me uninterested in theorycrafting.

It's not for HP and Torque. It's to turn a generator which powers an electric engine. Turning a generator doesn't require hp and torque. The great thing about this is: that it turns that generator with amazing efficiency and doesn't need several big, heavy car parts that a traditional combustion engine needs.

In the end it still needs gas. But it uses gas much more efficiently and allows the car to be 20% lighter. The end result is a car with an electric motor that runs on gas. 1/3 to 1/4 as much gas as what a normal car needs to run. No having to plug it in and no severe limitations on how far it can go like what battery run electric cars have.

It says all this plainly in the article so I really doubt you actually read it.

Color me interested in a car that can go 90 miles on a gallon of gas.

than put it up against a hybrid, which this is and see how they stack up. I need real points of comparison.

 

[M4rsch]

I lol'd at "almost $4 a gallon"...

 

[Latinidiot]

I'm sorry, but I'm getting more annoyed about every little invention that 'solves the X crisis' while still using oil.

No people, recycling or Shockwaving isn't saving the world, its just not screwing it up as fast. End of!

Assuming that it works at all?

Reduces petrol consumption by 90%? IE, 10 times most efficient than what we have now?

According to this article, current engines are only 15% efficient...doesn't this mean that this engine is 150% effective? Um...

No, it means it's ten times as effective.

For some reason all I can think about is Iron Man suit when I see a disc shaped energy thingy.

The pop culture is strong in this one.


On topic, I am relieved. I was wondering the other day how we were ever going to get ourselves out of this mess, and this certainly helps.

 

[solidstatemind]

This has got 'Nobel Prize' written ALL over it.

If it can produce enough power to provide performance along the lines of todays cars, it's a great idea; however, even then, I bet it will take forever to be adopted.

People are very fond of their cars.

 

[Darkauthor81]

Sweet so make a working engine that produces some HP and Torque numbers and compare it to an existing engine and see how the figures stack up.

otherwise color me uninterested in theorycrafting.

It's not for HP and Torque. It's to turn a generator which powers an electric engine. Turning a generator doesn't require hp and torque. The great thing about this is: that it turns that generator with amazing efficiency and doesn't need several big, heavy car parts that a traditional combustion engine needs.

In the end it still needs gas. But it uses gas much more efficiently and allows the car to be 20% lighter. The end result is a car with an electric motor that runs on gas. 1/3 to 1/4 as much gas as what a normal car needs to run. No having to plug it in and no severe limitations on how far it can go like what battery run electric cars have.

It says all this plainly in the article so I really doubt you actually read it.

Color me interested in a car that can go 90 miles on a gallon of gas.

than put it up against a hybrid, which this is and see how they stack up. I need real points of comparison.

This... IS a hybrid. Just a different, better, way of doing it. Ya know what? Never mind. You don't understand this at all and I don't feel like arguing with you about it.