Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
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Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#2It seems in tech just when the incumbents seem like they will lose to the upstart they achieve a breakthrough and the inevitable is delayed for a few more years.
Combine this breakthrough with what Michigan State is doing in gas powered engines and battery powered cars dominance is delayed for at least another decade.
http://www.wkar.org/post/reworking-michigan-msu-develops-lig...
Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#3I thought koenigsegg was already doing this with their freevalve thing
Also I saw an interesting point in an article about the koenigsegg thing that would pertain to this too; environmental laws would be much harder to practically enforce with this as you could run virtually any engine anemic enough to get though the emissions tests (and set it as the default mode to get around the Volkswagen nonsense) and then offer high/sport/cruise modes that runs the engine at full capacity otherwise
Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#4It seems in tech just when the incumbents seem like they will lose to the upstart they achieve a breakthrough and the inevitable is delayed for a few more years. Combine this breakthrough with what Michigan State is doing in gas powered engines and battery powered cars dominance is delayed for at least another decade. http://www.wkar.org/post/reworking-michigan-msu-develops-lig...
I would think that could help EVs, as it would be cheaper (in weight and dollars) to add a gas powered range extender to EVs with smaller batteries. I'd rather have an 80 mile EV with a range extender than a very expensive heavy 400 mile EV.
Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#5It seems in tech just when the incumbents seem like they will lose to the upstart they achieve a breakthrough and the inevitable is delayed for a few more years. Combine this breakthrough with what Michigan State is doing in gas powered engines and battery powered cars dominance is delayed for at least another decade. http://www.wkar.org/post/reworking-michigan-msu-develops-lig...
I would think that could help EVs, as it would be cheaper (in weight and dollars) to add a gas powered range extender to EVs with smaller batteries. I'd rather have an 80 mile EV with a range extender than a very expensive heavy 400 mile EV.
That’s probably one of the least interesting applications, really. We’re already quite good at optimizing engines for a narrow RPM/power range.
Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#6I thought koenigsegg was already doing this with their freevalve thing Also I saw an interesting point in an article about the koenigsegg thing that would pertain to this too; environmental laws would be much harder to practically enforce with this as you could run virtually any engine anemic enough to get though the emissions tests (and set it as the default mode to get around the Volkswagen nonsense) and then offer…
Wouldnt the test just need to apply to all modes? If its a matter of automatically tuning through a series of conditions then its reasonable that those could be documented and tested by the facility / standards body.
Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#7It seems in tech just when the incumbents seem like they will lose to the upstart they achieve a breakthrough and the inevitable is delayed for a few more years. Combine this breakthrough with what Michigan State is doing in gas powered engines and battery powered cars dominance is delayed for at least another decade. http://www.wkar.org/post/reworking-michigan-msu-develops-lig...
The inherently self destructive nature of ICE's make it likely that ICE vehicles will always be more complex, less reliable/ higher maintenance than comparable all electric vehicles. The simplicity advantage of electric will soon take a quantum leap when driveshaft-free 4 motor all wheel drive vehicles hit the market [1].
On the other hand as long as batteries are heavy, ICE's will have a place in aircraft, and I would think the OP's technology could be huge for helicopters.
1 http://www.electric-vehiclenews.com/2017/06/hondas-all-elect...
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#8Can private citizens obtain these?
Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#9When I did my mechanical engineering degree a long time ago this would have been the holy grail for engines. Let's hope reality doesn't offer drawbacks to this system like it happens to so many other engine designs.
Re: Fully digital valves open up engine possibilities
#10It seems in tech just when the incumbents seem like they will lose to the upstart they achieve a breakthrough and the inevitable is delayed for a few more years. Combine this breakthrough with what Michigan State is doing in gas powered engines and battery powered cars dominance is delayed for at least another decade. http://www.wkar.org/post/reworking-michigan-msu-develops-lig...
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