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Old 04-22-09, 10:43 PM
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A new rotary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsNMe3Tht1I

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Old 04-23-09, 11:32 AM
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wonder if it will work without defined chambers, looks like a vaccum pump... idk
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Impractical combustion chamber shape (far worse than the Wankel), poor mechanical advantage (extreme thrust angle for the 'Rotor" = lack of torque), and that pretty-impossible-to-ignite "inner chamber" says to me that this is an investor honeypot, not a serious design, if it's actually being presented as an engine.

Waving around gyroscopes and bearings while presenting his powerpoint without even ponying up for a projection screen says this thing exists only as vaporware. IMO.

It's a pump, maybe, but it's not an engine. "Bomba" is "pump," as I recall.
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very interesting, idk, i'd have to see them fire one up first lol. and yes bomba means pump, or grenade
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