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Old 07-30-2004 | 10:49 AM
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worlds smallest rotary engine

sorry if it's a repost


http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkele.../10_cmbus.html
Old 07-30-2004 | 10:59 AM
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Old 07-30-2004 | 11:19 AM
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The article is from April 2001. At that time they were counting on optimizing fuel consumption. Wonder if they are having any better luck than us?
Old 07-30-2004 | 11:22 AM
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That is so cool.
Old 07-30-2004 | 11:42 AM
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wonder if they can make a mini turbo to go with that thing? :D
Old 07-30-2004 | 11:44 AM
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why is the penny silver???
Old 07-30-2004 | 11:45 AM
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thanks for the link.
Old 07-30-2004 | 11:47 AM
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hehe funnny stuff.. it says that some Rx7 had rotarys..

Loosers. !!!

but it would be cool to make one for a Remote controll car.

180mph hehe

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Old 07-30-2004 | 12:46 PM
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I don't know what's worse: they saying some RX-7's had a rotary engine or you misspelling it.
Old 07-30-2004 | 12:51 PM
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I read that article when I was trying to find some info on the eccentricity ratio .
Old 07-30-2004 | 01:12 PM
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why is the penny silver???

Ummm it's a black and white photo!
Old 07-30-2004 | 06:40 PM
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Doh !
Old 08-01-2004 | 03:18 AM
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Re: Why is the penny silver?

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Ummm it's a black and white photo!
There are actually some "silver" pennies. Almost all pennies minted in 1943 were zinc-coated steel and appear silver.




Old 08-01-2004 | 10:04 AM
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There was a lot done like this back in the 1970s when Mazda first brought out the RX line. There was a model air plane engine and other small ones. The best, I think, was after some hobbiest read about the rotary in a Popular Science article, and that the rotor could have any number of odd number sides, not just the three that Mazda used, built in his garage a 5-7-or 9 lobe (I don't remember the actual number) rotay engine. It ft in his hand and actually ran! (But not while holding it in his hand!)

Someone that likes to research the rotary needs to check various printed material for the 1970's as that was when there was the most interest.
Old 08-01-2004 | 10:32 PM
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words smallest "rotary" engine... ATP synthase.

http://www.res.titech.ac.jp/~seibutu...ects/f1_e.html

This is being modeled in nano-engines to propell machines a few thousand times smaller than a human cell. Since ATP is found in every cell in the body, there's no running out of fuel for it!
Old 08-02-2004 | 03:52 AM
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“We are at the frontier of research into how to generate power using the smallest of components,” said Carlos Fernandez-Pello, a mechanical engineering professor who developed the engine

LOL! He's my research advisor! He also works on investigating the flammabilities of materials that NASA has/will use on current/future spacecraft. He's a real cool guy!
Old 08-02-2004 | 04:02 AM
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can't wait to see that run a car!!!!!!
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