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[lancaIV]

Elastomer O-rings for piston rings, in an engine filled with a noble gas mixture, expanding and contracting with sufficient force to turn the assembled engine?

Come on, give me a break. How long do you expect it to run EVEN IF IT WOULD RUN... ten minutes?

Go down to your local party supply store and buy an elastomer (not Mylar) balloon full of helium. This helium in the balloon will be at very slightly over atmospheric pressure... just enough to keep the balloon stretched to shape.

Put it up in the corner of your living room or laboratory.

Check it tomorrow with a 12 inch micrometer caliper, Mitsutoyo brand for accuracy. (just kidding... the Mark 1 eyeball is much cheaper and for our purposes here, sufficiently accurate enough by far.)
Check it again the next day.
And the next.
Report your results here.

YOU CANNOT KEEP Helium, especially, confined behind elastomer seals at any positive pressure. Especially if those seals are sliding against other surfaces, lubricated or not. Other noble gases ditto, in proportion to their atomic weights.

The reason my little helium engine above slows and eventually stops is because the helium diffuses out (its seals are liquid: oilfilms) and is replaced by ordinary old air, which doesn't work nearly as well.... in heat engines.... as helium.

(ETA: I don't mean _you_ , Mark, obviously. I mean YOU, who believe in Popper John.)

The inventor Dr.Pavel Imris show us in one of his publications one kind of solution to minimize pressure by envelopping the heat engine in a second chamber .
That means the engine has not directly ambient contact  -and the effect that the helium pressure will be less strong to the in/out valve .
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=24&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19990922&CC=EP&NR=0943789A2&KC=A2

[lancaIV]

spark:

This is the cooling effect which we can also feel with active carbon/ pulvered coffee metal box.
A great dark qm surface aerea per cm².
The greeks used adobe amphores which have had this effect like the Dewar flask.

Sincerely
                 CdL

p.s.:
an east german inventor Dr.Helmut Reichelt,developped in the eightees a carbon powder/copper band
thermovoltaic cell. Probably your idea integrated !? Pulsed to ambient resonance by an electron-gas-cycle.
THz-Frequencies.

[Hope]

You must use an electronic plasma ignition, a regular spark will do nothing.  The implosion is dramatic. One liter of imploded hydrogen is reported to make 1,800+liters of vacuum.   I will have to research the link again.  I read this over a year ago, perhaps I can find it again.   I thought this was common knowledge or I would have copied it then.

Wait till Dec 10th 2012,  this is the date they say they will show a working engine.   What do you want to bet they find a reason not to show the engine running.  Still we hope.

[Hope]

Mark,  what are the most promising devices as you see it just now?


Have you debunked the ERR? That Swartz guy seems a bit different.