Has anyone seen this??

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42460541/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/

The only thing I heard was shockwave. Everything else was a blue sky sales pitch. Couldnt open the diagram.

Mommas don't let your babies grow up to be A/P's! This looks like a throw away engine.

No Demo Guess they aren't that proud of it or they're worried about patent rights?

As my past life ended and I became a retired engineer I vowed to bash anyone using "paradigm"..BASH!!!

I also vowed to just laugh at anyone that thinks a "wave engine" will really work. I saw different versions of this several times.

The pattern of the wave created by the passing plates is the problem. You get less than half of what you expect.

GR

Finally found a decent explanation of the shock wave engine at MSU. The process was not explained well in the articles I found until I came across this.
http://gas2.org/2011/03/21/the-wave-dis ... different/

Doesn't mean it will work as advertised but it wouldn't have to in order to beat what we have. McCormick's reaper didn't work as advertised either but I'm sure glad he tried again after the laughing crowd went home to hand scythe their wheat. There wasn't a skeptic in the crowd when the same people lined up to order one. If you want a skeptics money you have to keep trying, but they do come around.

I should not bash, I do hope for their success because it equals our success, just that I need more than less, better, more in a sales pitch. I’m sure it is the best way to get money. During design and testing I had a good engineering partner and we played "It wont work because" on the others project. These well taken statements created good questions and made you solve the problems ahead of time and if you could not prove the others statement wrong you moved along to the next great idea or suffered the consequences. So not to be taken negatively "It wont work because" in the smaller scales the engines shockwave timing and location would require a stable atmosphere, minor changes in air density (alt, temp) would move or reduce the required shockwave out of position "timing" to make the engine efficient. Never mind all the technical issues of sealing, etc. WTF do I know. At a place I used to work they had super computers and every wind tunnel you could think of. The super computer models still could not completely and accurately model airflow, things still had to go into the tunnels to verify and correct the computer models. I think I already have a solution for the timing problem.