As a prior auto mechanic/aerospace technician I completely understand this machine and consider Raphial to be quite gifted and a Patriot who desired to GIVE this to the industry who spurned him. Therefore please disregard those critics who deride or even slander this man. Those that do so may themselves suffer from self righteousness.
This video was made in 2006, so has this engine been commercialized yet? Haven't heard of it and don't tell me that oil companies have not allowed this technology to come to market - go to China if oil companies are the obstacle!
For some reason I can't really trust this guy... He spends all this time capitalising his invention and making these bold claims of its conceptualised performance, based on no solid, real-world evidence whatsoever. If anything, by now he should have made a working model and fitted it to a car, or at least to a torque generator. This video is over 4 years old and stale.
This is just a functioning prototype. The ignition system is not shown for obvious reasons. (Patent) This motor takes out all the displacement issues out of the typical combustion engine. If you understand physics this motor makes perfect sense. So simplistic yet ingenious. If every small community had one of these machines to generate cheep electricity. There would be enough power to eradicate
World hunger and poverty. That's why the world powers repress this technology.
He has to play his cards close.. I don't blame him for being careful. If you all want this to be viable in the modern world share this video with all who you know!!!!!
I'd like to see a demonstration of this actually running, on either a carbureted or fuel injected system. I think it has a lot of potential, however, pumping compressed air through it doesn't impress me, as much as seeing a running version of it, in a vehicle, with dyno tests, and 1/4 mile times on a drag strip. If this thing is as good as he touts it to be, I'd be onboard to replace the 472 in my 72 Coupe DeVille with one of these. Of course there is also the issue of brackets and ancillaries.
@HeilSturm2718 I know what engines are. I've been working on them for 32 years. This is an air pump, and until you apply spark and fuel sources to it, and prove it can run efficiently, and cleanly, and still produce the HP he claims it can put out, then you don't have an engine here. Period. You have a rotating assembly at best, the equivalent of a long block crate engine.
As stated below. Without ancillaries, intake manifold and EFI or carb of some sort, you have some serious issues to overcome
he needs to have a couple of these IN CARS. ill be the guinea pig. give me an engine and ill put it in my old school toyota. he will be spinning his wheels as long as he never lets it out. too much attempting to get it mass produced and not enough proof via people driving with one in their car.
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Did he mean that this thing is supposed to run off air with no fuel with what he said between 4:20 and 4:28? If so, this thing is most definitely a hoax, as he would basically be claiming he's made a perpetual motion machine, which is always BS.
@YeshuaChuy no he's claiming that the engine will run from a compressed air source. There's a frech guy that has a patent for a similarly powered engine hence he can't patent the engine for that prupose.
Tiny engine is cute, but we're not being shown the cooling system. High cubic inches is fine, but we're still burning fuel and air, and an engine that puts out all those horsepower is going to put out a lot of heat. The fins make it appear air cooled, but... seems unlikely. Maybe the prototype can only be used for short runs.
@doobedoo22 i agree on gasoline , but on diesel no . and on soy bean juice even cooler . the only way my cummins will heat up is with a 195 thermostat with it out 100 deg tops unloaded... hang around some old road tractors awhile.
"During his spare time, as a "hobby", he works on a jetpack type of application in which a thruster system with his engine and a turbine would be strapped to a person's back like a backpack and would enable them to go airborne."... Angel Flight Pack.
Now if we could only convince him to pursue Cold Fusion...
He has been talking about this for at least 5 years and haven't sold one yet. If he was really serious he would make one and sell it and then sell them one at a time until it caught on. That's what Ford did and it worked out for him.
Instead he wants billions to start out at the top.
they got 8 or nine in small production from the mail i got. 8" or so in diamiter , sounds good so far. i'd like to put one on the nose of a 210 cessna ..
he is not particularly bright - i would expect a really innovative person would sound less 'convincing' and more factual - so he seems like more of a con artist than an innovator
you could run an ultra lean fuel-air mixture, and since the combustion chamber is seperate from the intake chamber, it would be REALLY powerful. If not, you could use a material with a high melting point and low thermal expansion rate like wankles do.
How does it idle, looks horrible unbalanced and like it will have wear/balancing/lubrication issues.
There's no way something that makes 250hp can be the size of an alternator, it will overheat and even if the crank was made of titanium it will shear from the torque if it was that size.
Biofuels are not the answer it causes famine due to the switch from food production to fuel production ..that what happened and millions went hungry with food riots ..u need to come up with a new fuel
Hi, xadam2dudex. These motors will run on hydrogen from water one day. Hemp seed is the best bio-fuel yielding twice as much oil per acre as peanuts. There is also bio-mass fuels that are derived from non-edible plant material and waste. Once you look into this stuff it's clear that the corporations do not want people knowing this information.
the current biofuel that is being promoted is made from corn which has caused worldwide hunger and food price spikes due to speculators and the shift from food to fuel production if soybeans are used the same thing will happen. Brazil uses sugarcane .. other non-food sources have to be used ..I have heard of these other sources as well as the fuels made from bacteria etc
@SowhatNC u must not have been one of the millions of people that were in the food riots when the price of food went thru the roof due to the shortage of grains due to their use to produce biofuels.. u must not have noticed the skyrocketing prices on the commodities exchanges...even if all the land was put into growing crops it could not offset the use of food crops for fuel a known fact
really? is that why brazil is totally fuel independent and in fact bases much of it's national economy on it's production, and imports no more of it's food than the united states does? did you know that you can make biofuels out of trash? yard waste? sewage? the overburden crop, switchgrass, had no more market value than top soil protection in the off season. now we know it yields more ethanol per ton than grain does. ain't that neat?
@benchracerX yes I know Brazil is fuel independent.. they use sugar cane to refine fuel ..it has a much higher fuel value than corn which is used for biofuel in the US due to the farm subsides the government pays the large corporate farmers..there are many people working on biofuels city trash, corn husk waste veggie oil etc
@xadam2dudex The government is currently paying millions to farmers NOT to grow crops, or in other words to let their fields sit bare, just to keep food prices from dropping too low and stalling the economy. We'd be in fine shape for a long time growing this fuel. If the balance got to far, food prices would get higher and farmers would grow more food. It would work ok.
@xadam2dudex A good point but you're missing some of the picture. Checkout how the World Food Program works. US subsidies their farmers, put the product into WFP stocks, lock it away, keep it on the books, wait for it to depreciate.
A massive quality of food is produced that only sits in warehouses to keep the books looking good.
Not saying it's the "solution", just that there is a lot more waste food (that is never delivered to those who need it) produced then you'd imagine.
@xadam2dudex -- it all depends on which other third of corn usage you pull the ethanol from. Currently it's 1/3 for feeding real corn to people, 1/3 for ethanol and 1/3 for, GET THIS, cattle feedlots and high fructose corn syrup-- in other words hamburgers and colas-- heart disease, obesity and diabetes. I think we should stop eating so much grain-fattened beef and drinking corn syrup so we'll still be able to feed the world with normal corn AND have enough to create ethanol as well.
@xadam2dudex That's only one tiny reason. Biofuels are fine as long as they use the most efficient plants to do so and also as long as they don't actively attempt to create conditions where other nations can't grow food to feed themselves, or make their own biofuels, or both. It is always about money.
@xadam2dudex You can make Bio fuels from Industrial Hemp, and use whats left over to make food products, fiber, and fucking Dynamite. What's more you don't need to rotate the crops because hemp isn't hard of the soil.
@SeigiSama Not to mention the health benefits and treatments effective with hemp oil. It's been shown to kill cancer cells without harming other cells. Check out the guy in Canada who was giving it away and the many ppl he helped.
Unfortunately the powers that be, who have the collective wealth of this world make more money selling ineffective and inefficient products that must be replaced and repurchased constantly, will lose massive profits if these things are put in our hands
This engine is a victim of its own efficiency. Conventional engine blocks break with their power output. This engine would fail on every level and twist the shaft like licorice.
I see some serious problems with the claims on this engine if it is to replace a large deisel engine. There are good reasons why a truck engine is so large. It is to produce the large amounts of torque needed to get 80k lbs of vehicle moving and running down the road. The torque requirement also needs a massive clutch and transmission. It doesn't take a Phd in M.E. to see that the first time that engine tries to operate on deisel at any kind of usable RPM, under load, it will turn into a bomb.
With the small engine he was talking about. What I don't get is how he will transfer the energy from the motor to the wheels. The drive shaft would have to be very narrow and may shear under load.
I c a lot of questions here of y it did not make it 2 a car well what this guy would not tell u is he stole the concept/designs from some poor smow working at mcdonald 's in Redding Ca around 2000-2001 what he did not know is that it was a throw away incapable 4 auto use do 2 rpms 400-700 most! U would need an extra trans just 2 bring it up and after that u would again have a heavy low powered engine, but if he was the original designer he would have known that }:( but there is another!!
I see a guy talking and a big piece of metal making noise.
All he needed to do for an effective demo was take a junk car, put this thing in it, fuel it up, and run it. Seriously, $200 and some welding would have made this a hell of a lot more impressive. That is, if he's not bullshitting everybody.
trying to understand the immense stress that would be placed on the crank...they'd have to lower the power to weight ratio to operate in a reliable fashion
I saw this over a year ago and I think now its either BS, or its maker was "convinced" to stop working on it. I'll check again now, but the web site it was on was "down for updates, check back soon".
This invention is more than 3 years old. Not even in the main stream media. Not on Popular Mechanics, Popular science, CNN, FOX, yada, yada, yada... Do you think the Bankrupt American auto makers could make some use of this to save themselves? Or is it another oil monger conspiracy? Whats holding up the progress, mang...
This engine is not new. There are tons of claims being made about this engine. Put it in a grand am car, race it 500 miles and prove that you can make this OLD design work better than what is commonplace today.
That's amazing - and I would love to see this bad boy in a car. The engine would be the size of two tin cans, stick it in the boot, or in the middle of the car for 4 wheel drive. Now we get double the boot space, or maybe no nose at all....
Just reading the comments here and Oasiac, you have so little idea of what you are talking about its just funny, this motor is 100 time easier and cheeper to make than any production motor today,
Although it works and is truelly amazing I have doubts about this. The costs to produce engines like this is insane! I don't know for sure if he has said the exact price of one will be but I know the costs of building such a complex motor will be very difficult on a large assembly line. Machining the donut shaped cylinder is very hard and 32 of them is even worst. One of those small ones would cost maybe 40,000 dollars.
A ball end mill can do the internal "cylinder" machining, and you only need a rotary table to make it all the proper shape. This all would be an easy machine expense for any automaker, but nobody ever hears him say that it ever ran on any fuel. Compressed air is not a fuel, and saying it "can run on 100% soybean oil" is not the same as saying it "has been tested on 100% soybean oil". Diesel testing seems easier since it needs almost nothing electrical compared to gasoline, what is he afraid of?
I don't believe that "piston rings" can be the only friction and guide the pistons properly, and be made with obtainable materials. The reason piston sleeves have friction is because they need to to make the pistons go the right place. Rings are to seal thing better, not to provide mech guidance.
they have made the engine size for a reason. the components in an 18 wheeler are massive because thats what it requires. i could compare this guys engine in an 18 wheeler to my hampster pulling me in a wagon. TRY HARDER THOUGH
ha. in order to pull mass you have to have mass, in this case the engine. this is not going to cut it, those pieces would snap. just like lego dude said.
This engine has not and will not ever run. This guy has been trying to sell this for years and it's never done anything but run on compressed air. I can do that with legos.
ok, i just smacked my hand across the keyboard and pressed search, and it came up wiht this vid. i dont eally have much of an idea why im even commenting
Yeah, those are "EXACTLY" my concerns. Having that many combustions per stroke will produce more than 4x the amount of heat when compared to an average vehicle. Are they gonna air cool it? I guess that this is another option.
The sheer torque that something should produce will snap that little crank like a toothpick.
many times the heat maybe so ?! but concider the fuel ,It still relies on high cylinger pressure to operate just like a vintage 250 cummins .. yet the cummins could with no modern thermostats in cooling system .. brobably NEVER heat up unless under heavy loads. what makes this with way less than half the flywheel mass any diferent.? please be specific as tho you were MIT 's finnest . thank you.
There are no rods. The piston heads are connected to two disks which rotate independently. The disks drive a pair of nested shafts that hook to a set of orbital gears which turn the step-wise motions into smooth rotation at the drive shaft. It's actually quite elegant and compact.
a turbine is many times more complex than an internal combustion engine and yet it is sometimes more reliable... not only that but the A380 has a better fuel per passenger rate of consumption than your average SUV or truck... did you know that?
This engine is not proven. Withhold all your praise, all your imaginings, all your calls to your friends, etc,...
...until this Jackass cuts his hair and gets down to the business of production and testing! Where's the oil filter? Can oil satisfactorily reach all parts at high RPMs? It's going to run on diesel, so where are the injectors? This genius is another one of those idiots who wants to show a concept, then hate us for not kissing his ass.
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Poor bloke. All he has is false hope and a lot of empty promises. I hope he had fun going bankrupt. Get a haircut, whats the lab coat for? Your not a scientist, your a con-artist, and a poor one at that.
There are a couple of recent interviews at some green energy sites around the web, but the gist is that Angel Labs was shopping around for licensees for the past two years. Now that they've decided to produce the engine on their own they're putting more info and media out.
That's a stupid thing to say. Or maybe that's why they make diesel and hybrid cars with the lowest possible fuel consumption?And maybe that's why they do research with hydrogen fuel cells?
hybrid cars arent really that great sure they save youin the short run but guess what when the battery goes out you have to put out about 7k for a new one now how isthat practical?? if this engine can do what he says it can idk why no car company will invest or at least take a look
The newest concept of hybrid propulsion is serial-hybrid with ultracapacitors instead of batteries. Ultracaps don't wear out as batteries do an can discharge much larger currents. Their role is to provide an energy buffer that would allow the engine to run at constant speed regardless of the actual speed of the vehicle - see Oshkosh ProPulse.
As for the second part, probably his claims are exaggerated, but anyway there is a great deal of inertia in the auto industry.
i have only seen this video but if it is anything like an old rotary the engine wouldnt last nearly as long as an inline diesel plus trying to get a company to put that in there truck
To further my point, what would ignite the fuel? If there is no compression in the engine (due to unsealed pistons), and no means of spark/ignition, how is the fuel going to burn? Simple physics and laws of energy distribution do not make sense with this engine.
Diesels don't use normal spark for combustion. Combustion comes from pressure increase. The initial spark is only needed. There has to be some sort of piston seal inside, but maybe an open head. Interesting. I have alot of questions. Heat, fuel consumption, torque and usable power under load. Apparently this won a NASA contest. I'm reading up.
Without seals around the "pistons", the explosive force of the combusting fuel will leak out all over the place, making it impossible to create any power. You need to seal off the space that contains the explosion in order to harness any useful power! This engine makes no mechanical sense whatsoever. Not to mention in the animation on his website, the pistons knock against each other during operation... wouldn't this destroy the mechanical parts? How would he keep the piston centered?
The parts don't knock together they come close that is the compression part which can be as high as 70:1 which is unheard of really. And he says that the only resistance is the piston rings.
I hope this engine really does work...It's going to change everything if it can do whta Morgado says it can do. In my opinion however it's a little too hopeful for the performance specs.
Is it just me or is anyone else sceptical? I mean I've seen a lot of hype but I haven't actually seen the motor do anything. If this is such a great engine why are there a hundred you tube videos telling how great the engine is but not one video of the thing actually doing any real work?
For a start, he looks & sounds crooked not an engineer. In addition, on the other site they claim power/weight ratio of 100. But the figures they give are 2,000 HP from 150 lb., which is 13.3 HP/lb. not 100. Duh! Still very good (if true) but if they can't manage a simple piece of math, then...? This obviously isn't a working engine. 2,000 HP even at 40% efficiency (very optimistic) requires massive cooling and there's no sign of it. 60% efficiency? -- forget it. Very suspicious.
He talks about various power to weight ratios that can be achieved through different sized versions of this engine with various displacements and also by adding a turbo or supercharger. This is a revolutionary redesign of the engine. The internal friction is one aspect of current engine design responsible for creating heat. This engine has very little internal friction and the entire engine acts as a heat sync.
how has this NOT been mass produced in tiny cars yet?
0thatdudewill0 1 week ago
why can i not find a reliable video of this engine working in a vehicle? You would have though there would be dozens from the inventor alone.
NichoTBE 2 months ago
Finally...this has to happen and now is our time to do our part(s) and help push this into being. Lets go in for a closer look okay?
2high2cry 4 months ago
As a prior auto mechanic/aerospace technician I completely understand this machine and consider Raphial to be quite gifted and a Patriot who desired to GIVE this to the industry who spurned him. Therefore please disregard those critics who deride or even slander this man. Those that do so may themselves suffer from self righteousness.
rhythmyst 5 months ago
Sincerely i have nothing to said about this video...
4mulas 5 months ago
Blue Sky mining company
cheerdiver 5 months ago
This video was made in 2006, so has this engine been commercialized yet? Haven't heard of it and don't tell me that oil companies have not allowed this technology to come to market - go to China if oil companies are the obstacle!
ashxyz2008x3 5 months ago
The most inefficient machine ever created - The Car
1000 kg vehicle to transport 80 kg person
The oil companies must be making a fortune !
Oh wait ...they are :-/
twistedbass15 6 months ago 8
The best biofuel by far, is Butanol. I urge you to Google - Butanol.
thrummer1953 7 months ago
i have no money, but i wanted to on your team. if you have any question please email me. Bad economy.
rogercontractor 7 months ago
The one major flaw in this design is heat control.
Rotaries fire only 6 times, make only 140 hp, and still run hotter than normal engines., with only 3 moving parts.
So how in the hell will an even smaller engine handle the heat of 32 strokes, and 850 bhp??!
MYT = meltdown
vettefan77 7 months ago
For some reason I can't really trust this guy... He spends all this time capitalising his invention and making these bold claims of its conceptualised performance, based on no solid, real-world evidence whatsoever. If anything, by now he should have made a working model and fitted it to a car, or at least to a torque generator. This video is over 4 years old and stale.
heimerdinger93 9 months ago
This is just a functioning prototype. The ignition system is not shown for obvious reasons. (Patent) This motor takes out all the displacement issues out of the typical combustion engine. If you understand physics this motor makes perfect sense. So simplistic yet ingenious. If every small community had one of these machines to generate cheep electricity. There would be enough power to eradicate
World hunger and poverty. That's why the world powers repress this technology.
I hope t
maryjane123rd 9 months ago
He has to play his cards close.. I don't blame him for being careful. If you all want this to be viable in the modern world share this video with all who you know!!!!!
moltenmatty 10 months ago
This jackass has more than enough time to show his engine running on actual fuel. Pure scam.
Asymmatrix 10 months ago
nice design, but theres one big problem:
25lb engine + 500hp = meltdown
I dont know how the hell something that small will handle the heat of '32 pulses?'...show me that, and ill send you a check
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Ali2011mb 1 year ago
i wonder why they are not in use yet, some power is playing role or they are not practical ?
sabkt 1 year ago
@sabkt These are not in use because it is a scam.
JVDnh 1 year ago 2
@JVDnh why are they a scam? just asking for an explaination
silentsniper441 11 months ago
@sabkt becouse industrial magnats dont have any profit in it
voixprime 10 months ago
so here we are 5 years later, where are these great engines?
themeekshallrule 1 year ago
I'd like to see a demonstration of this actually running, on either a carbureted or fuel injected system. I think it has a lot of potential, however, pumping compressed air through it doesn't impress me, as much as seeing a running version of it, in a vehicle, with dyno tests, and 1/4 mile times on a drag strip. If this thing is as good as he touts it to be, I'd be onboard to replace the 472 in my 72 Coupe DeVille with one of these. Of course there is also the issue of brackets and ancillaries.
22RZE 1 year ago
@22RZE Just remember that engines are basically nothing more then air pumps.
HeilSturm2718 1 year ago
@HeilSturm2718 I know what engines are. I've been working on them for 32 years. This is an air pump, and until you apply spark and fuel sources to it, and prove it can run efficiently, and cleanly, and still produce the HP he claims it can put out, then you don't have an engine here. Period. You have a rotating assembly at best, the equivalent of a long block crate engine.
As stated below. Without ancillaries, intake manifold and EFI or carb of some sort, you have some serious issues to overcome
22RZE 1 year ago
he needs to have a couple of these IN CARS. ill be the guinea pig. give me an engine and ill put it in my old school toyota. he will be spinning his wheels as long as he never lets it out. too much attempting to get it mass produced and not enough proof via people driving with one in their car.
toyolla86 1 year ago
love your engine and idea ..i consider the validity, however of a bio fuel.. in a world thats needs all the food it can get
frank0067 1 year ago
Shoot me a message I would like to invest.
IBANEZDADDY 1 year ago
This is the most ingenious motor I've ever seen. Incredible!!!
Algae Bio-fuel appears to be the most practical Bio fuel, next to HHO from Over-Faraday water conversion.
BUT your video 4:14 ? really? I'm afraid that will rock the cart a bit to much. You may have to incorporate some fake friction to prevent that.
Yourfishman 1 year ago
Free energy can change the world!But Elite controllers don't want ppl to be free from the costs of energy,Get the blueprints for a free energy motor at LT-MAGNET-MOTORdotCOM,Free yourself!
slipshodcoqbgg 1 year ago
No working model? No invention. Period. We are being hustleld. Beware.
skep4365 1 year ago
test drive a Tesla, then you will know the future is here... AND it is pretty fun...
epictangent 1 year ago
xaddem you grow diesel in waste water or bull manure which would make DC the fuel capital of the world!!!
wizardman42 1 year ago
great you made a tiny engine that does what a big one does.... WITH 200,000 TINY PARTS INSIDE OF IT! sounds REAL reliable
jetta2glx 1 year ago
did the atom bomb have ANY MOVING PARTS? if so please let me know , now define the work IT DID?
silverbird58 1 year ago
Did he mean that this thing is supposed to run off air with no fuel with what he said between 4:20 and 4:28? If so, this thing is most definitely a hoax, as he would basically be claiming he's made a perpetual motion machine, which is always BS.
YeshuaChuy 1 year ago
By air, I mean uncompressed air, of course.
YeshuaChuy 1 year ago
@YeshuaChuy no he's claiming that the engine will run from a compressed air source. There's a frech guy that has a patent for a similarly powered engine hence he can't patent the engine for that prupose.
As it is it is a neat idea.
AmblinClearwater 1 year ago
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ShinkaHentai 1 year ago
Tiny engine is cute, but we're not being shown the cooling system. High cubic inches is fine, but we're still burning fuel and air, and an engine that puts out all those horsepower is going to put out a lot of heat. The fins make it appear air cooled, but... seems unlikely. Maybe the prototype can only be used for short runs.
doobedoo22 1 year ago
@doobedoo22 i agree on gasoline , but on diesel no . and on soy bean juice even cooler . the only way my cummins will heat up is with a 195 thermostat with it out 100 deg tops unloaded... hang around some old road tractors awhile.
silverbird58 1 year ago
thats fair , the list of people he souldn't trust is long.
silverbird58 1 year ago
Maybe Harley Davidson will buy it
maak657 2 years ago
Draw your own conclusions:
"During his spare time, as a "hobby", he works on a jetpack type of application in which a thruster system with his engine and a turbine would be strapped to a person's back like a backpack and would enable them to go airborne."... Angel Flight Pack.
Now if we could only convince him to pursue Cold Fusion...
jveneruso 2 years ago
give him time , i say etheric energy..
silverbird58 1 year ago
He has been talking about this for at least 5 years and haven't sold one yet. If he was really serious he would make one and sell it and then sell them one at a time until it caught on. That's what Ford did and it worked out for him.
Instead he wants billions to start out at the top.
redgreen303 2 years ago
they got 8 or nine in small production from the mail i got. 8" or so in diamiter , sounds good so far. i'd like to put one on the nose of a 210 cessna ..
silverbird58 1 year ago
he is not particularly bright - i would expect a really innovative person would sound less 'convincing' and more factual - so he seems like more of a con artist than an innovator
geoffshred 2 years ago
Ever consider English might not have been his first language? didn't think so...
CSHracer 2 years ago
I bet MATERIAL wouldn`t last for long i would all melt quickly, never seen one running o fuel
soton000 2 years ago
you could run an ultra lean fuel-air mixture, and since the combustion chamber is seperate from the intake chamber, it would be REALLY powerful. If not, you could use a material with a high melting point and low thermal expansion rate like wankles do.
bmfoshizzle 2 years ago
i 'd bet on cummins diesel metalurgy dept. since they have mastered the alum alloy engines. lets think he is close
silverbird58 1 year ago
How does it idle, looks horrible unbalanced and like it will have wear/balancing/lubrication issues.
There's no way something that makes 250hp can be the size of an alternator, it will overheat and even if the crank was made of titanium it will shear from the torque if it was that size.
roflex2 2 years ago
how much horse power (in heat) does a suitcase hydrogen bomb make ill bet it's over 250.?
silverbird58 2 years ago
Lol, Hydrogen 20th century technology!
SowhatNC 2 years ago
well if it's so old of a idea , you tell me how you could made a working hydrogen bomb The first try..
silverbird58 1 year ago
ah Made in america i love it
silverbird58 2 years ago
Biofuels are not the answer it causes famine due to the switch from food production to fuel production ..that what happened and millions went hungry with food riots ..u need to come up with a new fuel
xadam2dudex 2 years ago 2
Hi, xadam2dudex. These motors will run on hydrogen from water one day. Hemp seed is the best bio-fuel yielding twice as much oil per acre as peanuts. There is also bio-mass fuels that are derived from non-edible plant material and waste. Once you look into this stuff it's clear that the corporations do not want people knowing this information.
SowhatNC 2 years ago 5
the current biofuel that is being promoted is made from corn which has caused worldwide hunger and food price spikes due to speculators and the shift from food to fuel production if soybeans are used the same thing will happen. Brazil uses sugarcane .. other non-food sources have to be used ..I have heard of these other sources as well as the fuels made from bacteria etc
xadam2dudex 2 years ago
@SowhatNC u must not have been one of the millions of people that were in the food riots when the price of food went thru the roof due to the shortage of grains due to their use to produce biofuels.. u must not have noticed the skyrocketing prices on the commodities exchanges...even if all the land was put into growing crops it could not offset the use of food crops for fuel a known fact
xadam2dudex 1 year ago
@SowhatNC Biofuel can also be done from grass or other non-edible plants.
veiakas 10 months ago
@xadam2dudex
really? is that why brazil is totally fuel independent and in fact bases much of it's national economy on it's production, and imports no more of it's food than the united states does? did you know that you can make biofuels out of trash? yard waste? sewage? the overburden crop, switchgrass, had no more market value than top soil protection in the off season. now we know it yields more ethanol per ton than grain does. ain't that neat?
benchracerX 1 year ago
@benchracerX yes I know Brazil is fuel independent.. they use sugar cane to refine fuel ..it has a much higher fuel value than corn which is used for biofuel in the US due to the farm subsides the government pays the large corporate farmers..there are many people working on biofuels city trash, corn husk waste veggie oil etc
xadam2dudex 1 year ago
@xadam2dudex The government is currently paying millions to farmers NOT to grow crops, or in other words to let their fields sit bare, just to keep food prices from dropping too low and stalling the economy. We'd be in fine shape for a long time growing this fuel. If the balance got to far, food prices would get higher and farmers would grow more food. It would work ok.
Superman83271 1 year ago
@xadam2dudex A good point but you're missing some of the picture. Checkout how the World Food Program works. US subsidies their farmers, put the product into WFP stocks, lock it away, keep it on the books, wait for it to depreciate.
A massive quality of food is produced that only sits in warehouses to keep the books looking good.
Not saying it's the "solution", just that there is a lot more waste food (that is never delivered to those who need it) produced then you'd imagine.
mryellow123 1 year ago
@xadam2dudex -- it all depends on which other third of corn usage you pull the ethanol from. Currently it's 1/3 for feeding real corn to people, 1/3 for ethanol and 1/3 for, GET THIS, cattle feedlots and high fructose corn syrup-- in other words hamburgers and colas-- heart disease, obesity and diabetes. I think we should stop eating so much grain-fattened beef and drinking corn syrup so we'll still be able to feed the world with normal corn AND have enough to create ethanol as well.
MartinTruther 10 months ago
PLUS it creates an ethanol market with will eventually be filled with switchgrass ethanol or, as I currently use, potato-peeling ethanol.
MartinTruther 10 months ago
@xadam2dudex That's only one tiny reason. Biofuels are fine as long as they use the most efficient plants to do so and also as long as they don't actively attempt to create conditions where other nations can't grow food to feed themselves, or make their own biofuels, or both. It is always about money.
brianwesley28 10 months ago
@xadam2dudex You can make Bio fuels from Industrial Hemp, and use whats left over to make food products, fiber, and fucking Dynamite. What's more you don't need to rotate the crops because hemp isn't hard of the soil.
SeigiSama 8 months ago
@SeigiSama Not to mention the health benefits and treatments effective with hemp oil. It's been shown to kill cancer cells without harming other cells. Check out the guy in Canada who was giving it away and the many ppl he helped.
Unfortunately the powers that be, who have the collective wealth of this world make more money selling ineffective and inefficient products that must be replaced and repurchased constantly, will lose massive profits if these things are put in our hands
TheBug1961 3 months ago
engines need to make oxygen not use it, how else are we going to conserve our breath.
onthecuttingedge2005 2 years ago
yes my complaint decades ago we need to talk the air into doing work for us and convert as nessary
silverbird58 2 years ago
nice!
mxmang 2 years ago
Verry impressive, i'm curious how come he is not in jail or dead, because this is what happens with all great inventors.
deliquenme 2 years ago
trully amazing
nitrojoe9 2 years ago
I am afraid saberfencer3 is right.
This engine is a victim of its own efficiency. Conventional engine blocks break with their power output. This engine would fail on every level and twist the shaft like licorice.
future2501 2 years ago
i said this too , till we sucked the paint off this big block chevele with a hopped up super beetle.
silverbird58 2 years ago
I see some serious problems with the claims on this engine if it is to replace a large deisel engine. There are good reasons why a truck engine is so large. It is to produce the large amounts of torque needed to get 80k lbs of vehicle moving and running down the road. The torque requirement also needs a massive clutch and transmission. It doesn't take a Phd in M.E. to see that the first time that engine tries to operate on deisel at any kind of usable RPM, under load, it will turn into a bomb.
saberfencer3 2 years ago
maybe so but no valvetrain, ido agree his crank linkage needs to be strong to hold back the (slave funtion of the rear)
temporary piston.
silverbird58 2 years ago
that some sick shit right there. however there are better alternative methods for automobiles.
klangot1 2 years ago
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your a fuckn asshole face moron!
tree25is 2 years ago
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this guy looks like he runs a suicide cult, maybe he will use that engine to power his UFO
illustriouschin 2 years ago
this engine can load accu cells on board of an electric vehicle
tangomusicband 2 years ago 2
This is the future..
bergssprangare 2 years ago 2
@bergssprangare I disagree, this is a scam...
epictangent 1 year ago
With the small engine he was talking about. What I don't get is how he will transfer the energy from the motor to the wheels. The drive shaft would have to be very narrow and may shear under load.
alanstarkie2001 2 years ago
the torque converter lock up shaft on my mopar is only 9/16" diam and it drive a full size 4door
silverbird58 2 years ago
I c a lot of questions here of y it did not make it 2 a car well what this guy would not tell u is he stole the concept/designs from some poor smow working at mcdonald 's in Redding Ca around 2000-2001 what he did not know is that it was a throw away incapable 4 auto use do 2 rpms 400-700 most! U would need an extra trans just 2 bring it up and after that u would again have a heavy low powered engine, but if he was the original designer he would have known that }:( but there is another!!
haylspa 2 years ago
I see a guy talking and a big piece of metal making noise.
All he needed to do for an effective demo was take a junk car, put this thing in it, fuel it up, and run it. Seriously, $200 and some welding would have made this a hell of a lot more impressive. That is, if he's not bullshitting everybody.
angryoldfatman 2 years ago 2
lets see it run on fuel.. people make air powered engines with lego's! look it up. All i see here is an oversized impact gun.
csSX4 2 years ago
trying to understand the immense stress that would be placed on the crank...they'd have to lower the power to weight ratio to operate in a reliable fashion
OniXV250 2 years ago
The last entry on the sites "news" section was April of 2006. RIP MyT engine.
allteeth 2 years ago 2
I saw this over a year ago and I think now its either BS, or its maker was "convinced" to stop working on it. I'll check again now, but the web site it was on was "down for updates, check back soon".
allteeth 2 years ago
I can't find a video w/this engine in action,,,like under the hood of a vehicle??
weston028 2 years ago
apogist - why is number 1 a problem? How do you know what your talking about?
lpercenter 2 years ago
This invention is more than 3 years old. Not even in the main stream media. Not on Popular Mechanics, Popular science, CNN, FOX, yada, yada, yada... Do you think the Bankrupt American auto makers could make some use of this to save themselves? Or is it another oil monger conspiracy? Whats holding up the progress, mang...
zev1963 2 years ago
At a power to weight ratio of 40:1, how do you keep the thing from twisting its crankshaft to pieces?
cpuwrite 2 years ago
This engine is not new. There are tons of claims being made about this engine. Put it in a grand am car, race it 500 miles and prove that you can make this OLD design work better than what is commonplace today.
canaanav 2 years ago
Otto Lutz in 1944.....its not new but around 65 years old.
DinsdaleCrocker 2 years ago
That's amazing - and I would love to see this bad boy in a car. The engine would be the size of two tin cans, stick it in the boot, or in the middle of the car for 4 wheel drive. Now we get double the boot space, or maybe no nose at all....
sikdave 2 years ago
I will belive in that when he take my car, install this "engine" and then I could drive by 1000 km without problems. Then I will belive.
golas80 2 years ago
This thing is awesome,
Just reading the comments here and Oasiac, you have so little idea of what you are talking about its just funny, this motor is 100 time easier and cheeper to make than any production motor today,
This needs to be the new technology,
killawhat1 2 years ago
Although it works and is truelly amazing I have doubts about this. The costs to produce engines like this is insane! I don't know for sure if he has said the exact price of one will be but I know the costs of building such a complex motor will be very difficult on a large assembly line. Machining the donut shaped cylinder is very hard and 32 of them is even worst. One of those small ones would cost maybe 40,000 dollars.
oasiac 2 years ago
A ball end mill can do the internal "cylinder" machining, and you only need a rotary table to make it all the proper shape. This all would be an easy machine expense for any automaker, but nobody ever hears him say that it ever ran on any fuel. Compressed air is not a fuel, and saying it "can run on 100% soybean oil" is not the same as saying it "has been tested on 100% soybean oil". Diesel testing seems easier since it needs almost nothing electrical compared to gasoline, what is he afraid of?
mmmmna 2 years ago
so where's the the vid of it in a car?
jingram1981 2 years ago
I don't believe that "piston rings" can be the only friction and guide the pistons properly, and be made with obtainable materials. The reason piston sleeves have friction is because they need to to make the pistons go the right place. Rings are to seal thing better, not to provide mech guidance.
grumpystiltskin 2 years ago
In this case, the pistons are not loosely mounted on a rod. They're in a fixed position. Hence, no need for guidance. They track in a circle.
alfalfa31 2 years ago
they have made the engine size for a reason. the components in an 18 wheeler are massive because thats what it requires. i could compare this guys engine in an 18 wheeler to my hampster pulling me in a wagon. TRY HARDER THOUGH
stekrirade 2 years ago
ha. in order to pull mass you have to have mass, in this case the engine. this is not going to cut it, those pieces would snap. just like lego dude said.
stekrirade 2 years ago
put it in my scooter
davison1021 2 years ago
This engine has not and will not ever run. This guy has been trying to sell this for years and it's never done anything but run on compressed air. I can do that with legos.
tomboi1978 2 years ago
I smell snake oil
jonragnarsson 2 years ago
ok, i just smacked my hand across the keyboard and pressed search, and it came up wiht this vid. i dont eally have much of an idea why im even commenting
Martyn6262 2 years ago
This is exactly what America needs - true innovation. Enough of the old school oil cartel control.
smaclellan 2 years ago
how have this engine been out?
thegreatkoua 2 years ago
LMAO if it was that small for a car imagine if you put that in a small boat or rc
30GB 2 years ago
No doubt on the men in black!! DO NOT SELL THIS TO OIL COMPANIES!!!!
rx11000 2 years ago
Yeah, those are "EXACTLY" my concerns. Having that many combustions per stroke will produce more than 4x the amount of heat when compared to an average vehicle. Are they gonna air cool it? I guess that this is another option.
The sheer torque that something should produce will snap that little crank like a toothpick.
esqueue 3 years ago 4
many times the heat maybe so ?! but concider the fuel ,It still relies on high cylinger pressure to operate just like a vintage 250 cummins .. yet the cummins could with no modern thermostats in cooling system .. brobably NEVER heat up unless under heavy loads. what makes this with way less than half the flywheel mass any diferent.? please be specific as tho you were MIT 's finnest . thank you.
silverbird58 1 year ago
Awesome. I'm really looking forward to see this engine in every day use. This is so exiting, simple and genious design.
MrBrander 3 years ago 2
There are no rods. The piston heads are connected to two disks which rotate independently. The disks drive a pair of nested shafts that hook to a set of orbital gears which turn the step-wise motions into smooth rotation at the drive shaft. It's actually quite elegant and compact.
superhakujin 3 years ago
More cylinders = more complexity. Greater complexity = higher cost, more breakdowns.
XCritonX 3 years ago
a turbine is many times more complex than an internal combustion engine and yet it is sometimes more reliable... not only that but the A380 has a better fuel per passenger rate of consumption than your average SUV or truck... did you know that?
corotor12345 3 years ago
This engine is not proven. Withhold all your praise, all your imaginings, all your calls to your friends, etc,...
...until this Jackass cuts his hair and gets down to the business of production and testing! Where's the oil filter? Can oil satisfactorily reach all parts at high RPMs? It's going to run on diesel, so where are the injectors? This genius is another one of those idiots who wants to show a concept, then hate us for not kissing his ass.
fdzwes 3 years ago
It has no oil filter - because it has no motor oil. Didn' t you listen to him?
snubbespelaren 3 years ago 4
But yet according to the website it's oil cooled?
tomboi1978 2 years ago
a lot of old cars didnt have oil filters , they exspected you to change oil
silverbird58 2 years ago
Wow... numbers seem ambitious
Zippercdrr 3 years ago
you power shifting technique is flawed you need a chain free way to move that power to the drive shaft.
ninnzbinnz 3 years ago
did you not hear him say it gives massive horsepower at extremely low rpms? you could litterally let it be air cooled from what i understand
rpaull3 3 years ago
If i ever get enough money i will purposely swap the semi engine into a bunch of cars and give them to people!
AAHAHAHHAAHHA
TheRiskTaker 3 years ago
only way to see is to make a very small car go really fast an accelerate too
leviterande 3 years ago
as they say, "God only knows"
leviterande 3 years ago
I had that idea kinda I wish man the best of luck
weaternpi 3 years ago
This is great!!! I know this man and have faith in his products.
kerryclarke71 3 years ago
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Poor bloke. All he has is false hope and a lot of empty promises. I hope he had fun going bankrupt. Get a haircut, whats the lab coat for? Your not a scientist, your a con-artist, and a poor one at that.
mattmorr 3 years ago
OMG STOP TALKING AND RUN IT!!!!
deltaforce229 3 years ago
Brave claims. Let's see the proof please.
LifesVoyager 3 years ago
oil monopoly!!! this world needs a change in the way goverments is managed ....
ikeruchi 3 years ago 2
2 questions:
1. where is the oil for lubrication?
2. how can support that tiny spindle an amount of 2000 bhp? or how can resist that material (an inexpensive one) to a brute force of 2000 bhp?
i think he use for demonstration compressed air for avoiding overheating...
zeitgeist2008 3 years ago
if you were listening, he said you didn't need oil
nickdudem 3 years ago
There's no more fucking info on this engine or anything to do with it's production.
It's last news update was like 2006 April..fucking 2 YEARS AGO.
Where is the info? Or did this "project" fail miserably and they didnt know how to save face?
Zlatko2009 3 years ago
There are a couple of recent interviews at some green energy sites around the web, but the gist is that Angel Labs was shopping around for licensees for the past two years. Now that they've decided to produce the engine on their own they're putting more info and media out.
superhakujin 3 years ago
why the hell isnt this being mass manufactured and on the streets?!
dmastrone 3 years ago
because the car companies are in bed with the oil companies
2002yzf426rider 3 years ago
That's a stupid thing to say. Or maybe that's why they make diesel and hybrid cars with the lowest possible fuel consumption?And maybe that's why they do research with hydrogen fuel cells?
r8wing 3 years ago
hybrid cars arent really that great sure they save youin the short run but guess what when the battery goes out you have to put out about 7k for a new one now how isthat practical?? if this engine can do what he says it can idk why no car company will invest or at least take a look
2002yzf426rider 3 years ago
The newest concept of hybrid propulsion is serial-hybrid with ultracapacitors instead of batteries. Ultracaps don't wear out as batteries do an can discharge much larger currents. Their role is to provide an energy buffer that would allow the engine to run at constant speed regardless of the actual speed of the vehicle - see Oshkosh ProPulse.
As for the second part, probably his claims are exaggerated, but anyway there is a great deal of inertia in the auto industry.
r8wing 3 years ago
Kinda amazing...
Christhjian 3 years ago
What is the thermal efficiency.
spark300c 3 years ago
i have only seen this video but if it is anything like an old rotary the engine wouldnt last nearly as long as an inline diesel plus trying to get a company to put that in there truck
Tylergooler 4 years ago
Morgado! This is the guy!
Im looking for your tecnology my Friend!
For god, If i live to the time i got some money, I want your machine in my car!
gfcgamer 4 years ago
To further my point, what would ignite the fuel? If there is no compression in the engine (due to unsealed pistons), and no means of spark/ignition, how is the fuel going to burn? Simple physics and laws of energy distribution do not make sense with this engine.
dave2288 4 years ago
Find some more tecnical stuff, there is a huge compression!
IS a kind of super double rotary style.
I saw the animations, It makes sense!
gfcgamer 4 years ago
There is no (JET compresson) that is super expensive and Inefficient near this!
But has compression. And is not really a old rotary, is super better!
Look better, there are videos expaining in details in video on the right.
MYT engine bt SowhatNC....
gfcgamer 4 years ago
Diesels don't use normal spark for combustion. Combustion comes from pressure increase. The initial spark is only needed. There has to be some sort of piston seal inside, but maybe an open head. Interesting. I have alot of questions. Heat, fuel consumption, torque and usable power under load. Apparently this won a NASA contest. I'm reading up.
allteeth 4 years ago 2
Without seals around the "pistons", the explosive force of the combusting fuel will leak out all over the place, making it impossible to create any power. You need to seal off the space that contains the explosion in order to harness any useful power! This engine makes no mechanical sense whatsoever. Not to mention in the animation on his website, the pistons knock against each other during operation... wouldn't this destroy the mechanical parts? How would he keep the piston centered?
dave2288 4 years ago
The parts don't knock together they come close that is the compression part which can be as high as 70:1 which is unheard of really. And he says that the only resistance is the piston rings.
macro820 4 years ago
I stand corrected with the knocking. But in any sense, there is no compression if there are no piston rings! I don't see any on the engine.
dave2288 4 years ago
If you look at the picture of the engine internals you can pretty clearly see a double seal on each piston (one for each compression chamber).
Swamaro 3 years ago
I hope this engine really does work...It's going to change everything if it can do whta Morgado says it can do. In my opinion however it's a little too hopeful for the performance specs.
dave2288 3 years ago
Yap yap yap, all I ever find when I search for this engine is talk, never any results.
twisteddragyn 4 years ago
Bolt it on to a 50kva aternator under full load record that, then post another video....I just want to see it WORKING UNDER LOAD(LOTS OF IT).
waterworkss 4 years ago
show it on a dyno at least
heliarche 4 years ago
ENOUGH talk,lets see the DAMN thing work
tommee10533 4 years ago 2
Thats the problem..
MartinsBrew 4 years ago
Is it just me or is anyone else sceptical? I mean I've seen a lot of hype but I haven't actually seen the motor do anything. If this is such a great engine why are there a hundred you tube videos telling how great the engine is but not one video of the thing actually doing any real work?
Put up or shut up!
string11 4 years ago
For a start, he looks & sounds crooked not an engineer. In addition, on the other site they claim power/weight ratio of 100. But the figures they give are 2,000 HP from 150 lb., which is 13.3 HP/lb. not 100. Duh! Still very good (if true) but if they can't manage a simple piece of math, then...? This obviously isn't a working engine. 2,000 HP even at 40% efficiency (very optimistic) requires massive cooling and there's no sign of it. 60% efficiency? -- forget it. Very suspicious.
Gruntol5 4 years ago
He talks about various power to weight ratios that can be achieved through different sized versions of this engine with various displacements and also by adding a turbo or supercharger. This is a revolutionary redesign of the engine. The internal friction is one aspect of current engine design responsible for creating heat. This engine has very little internal friction and the entire engine acts as a heat sync.
hentaitensai 4 years ago