FORUMula1.com

[Jabberwocky]

http://www.welldonestuff.com/2012/11/wo ... ngine.html

[myownalias]

Nice idea; but if it is a petrol engine; where does the exhaust go? it's not practical for consumer electronics if it's polluting the internal airspace where you live!

[Hammer278]

"Trust us, we're engineers".

[Jabberwocky]

Nice idea; but if it is a petrol engine; where does the exhaust go? it's not practical for consumer electronics if it's polluting the internal airspace where you live!

I would of thought that the emissions are minimal if it uses a squirt of lighter fluid in 18 months or so

[madbrad]

Yeah, a Zippo lighter used on a typical interval probably burns more fluid in a year than that engine.
I wish the article had more information. It's just a tease.

[stonemonkey]

Shame the article isn't welldone, the info given in it is meaningless and misleading.

[Jabberwocky]

I have done a bit of google-ing and there does not seem to be much info around on it. one forum seems to think that it would use 1.5L every 6 months of fuel if it was running on idle. It would also produce about .5W of energy. However that was someone taking a guess.

[stonemonkey]

At ~30% efficiency it would be something like that.