Axial Vector Engine 12 cyl

Very interesting disgn, too bad it works better as an AC compressor for cars then an engine.

ha ha that what i thought the first second i saw it.

I've worked on my own version of this design. My biggest problem is how to keep the bearings on the connecting rod from turning out of their assigned tracks on the sine wave plate. I don't see the solution on this design either. The best I could come up with is to make the bores and piston crowns ovoid. This solves the tendency for the crowns to rotate, and makes more efficient use of the available space, but brings a dificulty in fitting rings. What can I not see in this animation?

"In full sun, you can safely assume about 100 watts of solar energy per square foot. If you assume 12 hours of sun per day, this equates to 438,000 watt-hours per square foot per year. Based on 27,878,400 square feet per square mile, sunlight bestows a whopping 12.2 trillion watt-hours per square mile per year."

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"With these assumptions, figuring out how much solar energy hits the entire planet is relatively simple. 12.2 trillion watt-hours converts to 12,211 gigawatt-hours, and based on 8,760 hours per year, and 197 million square miles of earths surface (including the oceans), the earth receives about 274 million gigawatt-years of solar energy, which translates to an astonishing 8.2 million quads of Btu energy per year."

"In case you havent heard, a quad Btu refers to one quadrillion British Thermal Units of energy, a common term used by energy economists. The entire human race currently uses about 400 quads of energy (in all forms) per year. Put another way, the solar energy hitting the earth exceeds the total energy consumed by humanity by a factor of over 20,000 times."

Cool design but the real question is has anyone built one? If so are there any videos of one running? I would like to see one running and the HP/Torque curve for it. I wonder what the longevity of it would be under full load conditions. Until one is built and running something it is all just speculation. Lets get some real proof going then tell the story.

if we covered the entire surface of earth with solar captured every braes or stream, and harvested every bit of thermal energy from the mantel we still wouldn't be able to keep up with current production. and BTW uranium is a depleting resource.

Where the hell did you get that information from?

If you covered a 100x100 sq mi area in the Nevada desert with modern solar panels, it would power the ENTIRE United States.

You can see various sources online.

Not to mention every second tens of thousands of gigawatts of power enters the atmosphere.....

Oh & BTW uranium is abundant & we can still use decaying forms of it for power usage.

the world used 4.627*10^26 btus in 2005. in the same year the world received 4.7390856*10^20 btus. not even close. BTW 21% was the us's.