MYT the Mighty Engine!

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Permalink Reply by Laurence on April 22, 2009 at 2:37pm

Bloody hell, that's is an ingenious design!! I wonder if they ran any continuous tests on the engine (ie running it constantly before it breaks or something goes wrong) more to the point they'd need to do a lot of a) design work so that the parts are VERY finely balanced, probably a lot more than a normal car engine would be, And B) they'd have to do a lot of MAthematical modelling.

Both for the purposes so that it doesn't shake itself to bits when it hits a certain RPM (this is known as an object's "natural" or "harmonic" frequency.

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Permalink Reply by d-dave on April 22, 2009 at 3:52pm

As a correction Above I had said they are going into production as quoted from PESN.

Looking further into intial report it is was reported

"Rather than wait for a huge contract to build new vehicles from the ground up, Morgado's company, Angel Labs LLC, finally decided to just forge ahead with a retrofit paradigm. They are looking for someone with $10 million to head up the franchising of retrofit garages that would replace existing engines with their engine. Morgado would handle the production -- something he's done before, with some 150 inventions to his name. The $10 million is needed for building the production plant."

The only engine that has been displayed is the one on compressed air. Although the claim is it was made for gasoline and Bio-diesel but only work demonstration i have seen is on compressed air. I can't seem to find any stress test data either. Which does led to a lot of questions on heat, harmonic frequency and in general normal wear and tear.

I think this is an awesome invention if its all legit.

I just can't help but think why aren't I seeing the stress test data, and why is he still looking for investors?

Maybe its to good to be true, and again maybe not. Its hard to say but he does have quite the resume. I mean wining international NASA contest. Someone out there must have believed him whats holding this back?

Does it just look good on paper? or is it something else?

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Permalink Reply by Alex V. on April 22, 2009 at 9:20pm

That looks like a variation on a Wankel engine. And it seems that it's not a new concept, as you can see here. I would really like to see it in a car, on a dyno, and see what kind of numbers it generates.

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Permalink Reply by Laurence on April 24, 2009 at 12:18pm

Overall I think the way things are going are towards hydrogen fuel cells:

this is the UK motoring program making a case for it by their test of the honda FCX clarity:


And it's available in California of all places :P

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