MAR 10

You might have to keep that in mind when comparing. Thats where hybrids save gas. Hybrids will often loose when compared to an efficient combustion engine runing only at is's optimal speed.

I wonder if this technology can be ported to aircraft, trains, and ships? The reason I ask is that we are almost always concerned about our vehicles, but we need to think about the whole transportation system. Trains, Planes, Boats, and Vehicles. I hope the other areas are being considered as well.

Yeah, that's kinda late... I hope I'll be driving my hydrogen/battery hybrid 'Prius' by then...

This is vaporware (literally). Check out their website there is nothing real there. They must be getting low on funding and need to find more VC. Next...

@Joe: I'd be careful calling it "vaporware (literally)", since their website shows actual mounted injectors, and a test mule vehicle, with results.

Now you may doubt the veracity of their patented technology, but be careful with the words you choose to malign a company. But, you may be correct in that they may need more capital... what new start-up company doesn't need a darling investor?

Cheers,
Doc

This is old tech. It is just modified vapor carbs.Plus VW has been working on spark less gas engines since the 1980's . The engine will always require a heavy metal build like diesels because of the fuel detonation. The geometry of the piston does some but not enough.The tech that I am waiting to see is sonic fuel fracturing.High frequency sound breaks fuels molecules. That would be neat.

Transonic combustion seems to be more of a transition technology between the traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) and zero carbon emission technology.

I'm a student working on building an EcoCAR. Our car is a Plug-In Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric, it runs on hydrogen and battery power and uses 80% of the energy produced (5X more efficient than ICEs). There is zero carbon emission! Our vehicle industry needs to be vigorously pursuing such clean technologies to truly make a difference.

More can be found about our car and our EcoCAR Challenge at www.greengarageblog.org and the team website www.uwaft.com.

Look at their board. Vinod Khosla isn't short of money you twit.

Plenty of heavy hitters and real tech. This is the real thing. Although I'll admit a lot of the stuff on this site is garbage.

Power your car with a steam engine seawater heated by highly magnified solar power is the way forward. Cheap safe Just try to heat gasoline and you could be arrested for making a !@#B! You could also blow yourself up great for trains plane and automobiles and wars. NO safe power and plenty of it is the only true answer.

What all these attempts at improving internal combustion fail to take into account is that we are RUNNING OUT OF OIL. Peak oil is not a theory. Just as catastrophic climate disruption is not a theory. Burning oil for fuel is like burning Picasso's for heat. Maybe in the future we can synthesize methanol, but then it will be run through fuel cells, not burned like cord wood.

Cool!! Smokey Yunick (Greatest auto mechanic ever) developed what he called his "hot air engine" sometime in the '70's or 80's. It heated the fuel, and maybe the air also.It actually worked great. My memory isn't perfect, but I do remember the Big Three didn't go for it. Imagine that!!
Billy Bob

Pour la premiere fois en France un evenement Cleantech Micro Algues - Biofuel

Avec les start ups americaines Planktonix et Algaesystems, la start up francaise BBTEK et plusieurs autres start ups et grands groupes

Mardi 6 avril - 18H30 - 22H

La Cantine Numerique, Passage des Panoramas, 151 rue Montmartre, 75002 Paris

For the first time in France a Cleantech event Micro Algae - Biofuel With several French and American start ups and a world leader

http://cleantuesdayparis.fr/event/cleantuesday-micro-algues-bio-fuel

Obama has already seeded the nuclear electricity powered electric bullet train network in Florida. America will need only short haul battery vehicles once this is established. Oil will be reserved for Defense purposes, and OPEC and the Saudis will sell oil for Yuan in the near future - outbidding the American sawbuck as it falls through the gates of Hell on its way down! As burgeoning Asian growth demands a larger share of the worlds finite reaources, Americans will suffer and give up part of their share to stronger Asian demands and higher prices. America will reataliate by developing domestic based energy and foresaking their foreign liquid energy based economy for a domestic based one - Solar Wind Wave Hydro Tidal biogas/fuel cell, Geothermal, Nuclear produced Electricity will flow through a new Socialist/Obama style Manhattan Project sized super-grid, much to the chagrin of the corrupt corporatists, Capitalists and their strangle hold on America, and this cancer shall die, and democracy will rule the new day! This little corporatist venture - a gasoline burning diesel is part of the corrupt network of right wingers that ruined the country - VW has damned good diesels, Blu-tech Diesels from Mercedes and various Asian diesels already fill the gap this anachronism purports to address! Remember the Piss -Poor American engineered Diesels from GM in the 70's? Laughing-stock to the automotive world! This injection system falls into the same category! - Get with it folks! we are going Battery-electric and electric bullet trains - no turning back! All else is good money after bad, money spent chasing the illusive gasoline wealth of the past in America, gone forever!

I don't know why y'all are wasting your time with 50% increased efficiency when 100% energy conversion is right under our noses. Two words: antimatter annihilation. All of our focus needs to be on harnessing the power of anti matter. After all, isn't matter what got us into this energy mess in the first place? Let's just get rid of it and take the energy and run.