Crazy Engine Idea

[Low-Q]

wouldn't the excess weight be a problem? hope not too much of a  problem. unless you're using light weight materials for your heat engine.

peace

Weight should not be a problem. However it must weigh something, but light materials are quite easy to get cheap - aluminum or magnesium, maybe even ceramic materials can be used. A steam engine directly connected to the engine should not be hard to run. The steam will eventually cool down, and run into a separate tank. An indicator in the car cabin will tell when it's time to refill.
Or to enhance the efficiency of the steam engine, a screw compressor should be ran by the steam. Only rotating parts, and no piston movements.

What about that?

Br.

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[bastonia]

weird ... on www.keelyNet.com today

05/24/07 - Efficient, Clean, high power Steam engine
KeelyNetBruce Crower has spent a lifetime eking more power out of every drop of fuel to make cars go faster. Now he's using the same approach to make them go farther, with a radical six-stroke engine that tops off the familiar four-stroke internal-combustion process with two extra strokes of old-fashioned steam power. A typical engine wastes three quarters of its energy as heat. Crower's prototype, the single-cylinder diesel eight-horsepower Steam-o-Lene engine, uses that heat to make steam and recapture some of the lost energy. It runs like a conventional four-stroke combustion engine through each of the typical up-and-down movements of the piston (intake, compression, power or combustion, exhaust). But just as the engine finishes its fourth stroke, water squirts into the cylinder, hitting surfaces as hot as 1,500?F. The water immediately evaporates into steam, generating a 1,600-fold expansion in volume and driving the piston down to create an additional power stroke. The upward sixth stroke exhausts the steam to a condenser, where it is recycled into injection water. Crower calculates that the Steam-o-Lene boosts the work it gets from a gallon of gas by 40 percent over conventional engines. Diesels, which are already more efficient, might get another 5 percent. And his engine does it with hardware that already exists, so there's no waiting for technologies to mature, as with electric cars or fuel cells.

[Low-Q]

wouldn't the excess weight be a problem? hope not too much of a  problem. unless you're using light weight materials for your heat engine.

peace

If we can agree that a steam engine works, with all its weight - it is even running big trains, we can agree that the steam engine in the car also will do work. What we are doing is just to encrease the gasoline powered motors power, not making an OU motor. It is not automaticly more than 100% efficient because of the steam engine, but maybe it's possible to encrease from 20-30% to maybe 80%... In addition a electric generator is used to charge a battery when the car is breaking. The excess energy can be used to run  the generator when the car is accelerating - the Toyota (or is it Honda) Prius is using this technology already. Braking the cars speed is an direct loss of energy. This energy loss is instead used to power the car on demand.

So, then we have a steam engine, gasoline engine, and an electric motor in one, utilizing almost all thinkable losses.

Br.

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[FreeEnergy]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AifGfayZHzc

[IronHead]

More like this  high speed high power

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PO1X95LwlBM
and
http://youtube.com/watch?v=umlhurVfPF8&mode

Now imagine this the size of a  four cylinder car engine. Not as heavy though as we would not be holding back explosive energy. Attach to the exhaust side and  you have the idea..
Also the drawing here has more effective cooling concepts for the cold side of the Stirling . The hot side would be much hotter than these candles used in these videos as well. What is the exhaust temp at the head ? about 1200F.
I think in these conditions a very powerful Stirling could be built to use more of the gasoline or hydrogen engine's energy.