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This is WOT, but my mother is looking to invest in a penny stock based on a technology that seems a little snake-oilish to me. Their website - notice they haven't even gone to the expense of registering a domain!here's the "in-depth" explanation: In Depth. With my limited knowledge of how a combustion engine works, I still don't see how enough pressure is established to ignite the fuel. Anyone have opinions? TIA, Joe
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Re: OT: Detonation Cycle Gas Turbine
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+1 I'm no engineer but I am a Mechanic. IMO There is little chance this engine would work judging from the cutaway. Imagine if the intake valve stuck open on your bike. When the sparkplug fires the burning gasses blow out thru the exhaust as normal but they also blow back thru the carb (Backfire) Over an extended period this will fill the carb with sooty deposits. They are saying the exhaust magicaly stops in the intake pipe by "a pressure based blockage". (if this were true mufflers wouldn't let the gasses out of the engine??) Also an average engine compresses the air/fuel charge around 10:1. The "air pump" shown couldn't make that kind of pressure without burning up.(and if it could, fuel+air+pressure= a bomb waiting to blow-up) And another thing, air powered turbines are not known for their "torque" so driving a vehicle from the drive shaft on a turbine won't get you too far! 
I'd tell her to steer clear. I'm going to show a print out of "how it works" to a few guys in my shop and see what they think?
1982 Pontiac Trans Am...K.I.T.T. in progress.
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