alanejackson
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Could a piston engine be made to run on air by replacing its sparkplugs with lasers? Wait and see?
the lasers will cause rapid expansion in the cylinders
All the piston engine needs is rapid expansion in the cylinders, right?
Cover the vehicle with solar panels, while it is sitting it will be charging, the lasers will cause rapid expansion in the cylinders. For most people that drive short distances, the vehicle will run on hot air. Kind of like a momentary steam engine, very energy-efficient.
For vehicles used more frequently, you could inject gas in a cylinder every so often to run an alternator. This would make the piston engine a lot more fuel efficient.
We started out using sparkplugs, probably because we didn't really have lasers. And now we are just in the habit of using sparkplugs.
Thomas Edison used to say; "an inventor must have a junkyard".
We'll leave a light on for you.®
Been there done that. Nothing new to see here.
The Stirling engine runs on the theory of hot air expanding and cold air contracting. This has been around for a long time.
(Sorry.)
Could a piston engine be made to run on air by replacing its sparkplugs with lasers? Wait and see?
Ditto.
But let me add that the rotational power needed to run a generator of sufficient size to power the lasers would be the practical issue to overcome. Sure you can bench test something powering the lasers when they are plugged into a power source,
But as I said:... And you would work designing lasers specifically for this purpose, they do not exist yet either...
Consequently I'd think it would be just as likely to make theoretical engine run on:The only engines that are really interesting are engines that are practical & powerful. Practical means they must be efficient, affordable, reliable and attainable for use in a car, tractor, etc.
Tractors4U said:dilithium crystals
Actually, it's pretty much a mathematical impossibility.
The biggest problem, is that knowledgeable people are few and far between.
I'm not saying it's a perpetual motion machine, it would not work in the absence of an atmosphere. And it would probably work better the higher the humidity, or, if a little water was injected.
Sigh...no, he isn't.Alan E. Jsckson is starting to make sense here.
Sigh...no, he isn't.
Give a million monkeys a million typewriters and a million years and one of them may write something akin to what we are reading here todayIf he did make sense, it would be nothing more than a 'blind squirrel finding one nut every ten years".
Give a million monkeys a million typewriters and a million years and one of them may write something akin to what we are reading here today
Don't confuse him with facts!Conservation of Energy, the Second law of Thermodynamics, and possibly a little research into Thermochemical Combustion theory might be wise before you invest a whole bunch............. Or hell just go with it.