Very well done. Your narrative was concise and informative, the background music was just that, background as it should be. Not some overwhelming headbanging. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank yo.
I came here to see the spherical engine in the thumbnail. I was totally expecting clickbait and the need to dredge the comments to find it. Thanks for not doing that!
2:20 - The Napier Deltic is the big grandfather of this engine. It has 36 pistons in 18 cylinders, arranged in a delta configuration of 6 banks, is a two-stroke Diesel engine, and develops up to about 2,500 horsepower. The 'Baby Deltic' has half the number of banks. The Deltic was developed from a 1930's Junkers Jumo 204 design under license. The engines were variously used in aircraft, military boats, railway locomotives, and even in a New York Fire Service water pump. They were sometimes used in pairs; 72 pistons in 36 cylinders. So the basic design of the engine in the video is at least 85 years old.
The Duke engine is an adaptation of a fairly common air conditioning compressor. I often wondered if it could be adapted to become an internal combustion engine. Cool that someone did it.
wow good video, usually these videos are just stuff I have seen a hundred times or more but the Columbia uni engine is truely something of a new one on me and a rather interesting take on a hydro power. however the solenoid engine has been done a number of times over the years with little information going public due to the expected short comings of reliability but well done, great content
Good video, *IF* you didn't hope to get any technical explanation - or any understanding at all, for that matter - on how the engines work. Just by the way, WTF is with the weird accent? Never heard anything like it, it doesn't seem to match up with my (limited) knowledge of US regionals accents.
Thanks, yeah Koenigsegg is an awesome company! This video took awhile lol so its good to see you like it, I hope you don't mind the faster paced ones but I get busy with school/work sometimes.
3:25 problem is is the fact that stirling engines have used this for a long time aswell they arnt inviting a new engine, just revisiting and updating a existing system
***** Regardless of either, 11.1-something km/s is escape velocity, if you're at that speed anywhere around Earth, you'll shoot into outer space. Low altitude orbital velocity is about 8 km/s i.e. Mach 22. Moving 30% faster breaks circular/elliptic orbit into non-looping infinite line and you fly out and never return. For the reference, escape velocity of the Sun is 617.5 km/s though - super hard to reach. Fastest moving man-made object only runs ~40 km/s.
The "Opec" engine seems to be the most practical option and even the "next" logical evolutionary step in the well known "boxer" engine. All, aside from the "bacterial" engine, seem to have probable applications in the future if properly refined. In my humble opinion, magnetics will play a big part in future powertrains both on a planet and in space.
This was a surprisingly good video, no bullshit, everything possible or theoretically possible (that EM space drive is based on some really weird quantum mechanics, bu then again, everything is weird with quantum mechanics), no click bait, and well articulated.
Working on a reciprocating permanent magnet motor-generator, using superconducting wire and combustion of methane gas. Compressing the magnetic field of a neodymium magnet is a way to "momentarily" store energy from the combustion of methane gas, in that balancing motion & mass is like putting a spring between two freight trains moving head on, even when both trains are moving at exactly at the same rate and have exactly the same mass the trains will still be going through that force that pushes & bends. Balancing the center-points & controlling vibration & lost motion seems to be the key ingredient concerning the top 10 strangest engines, I love this video and would like to see more like this!
The OPOC EM100 engine is just 1/3 of the Delta engine that still runs trains in England and was a spoil of war designed by the Germans in WW2 and reverse engineered by the Brittish to use in their long haul transit system....Many blessings , SMR
Great show. The Saber engine is even more remarkable than you mentioned. First, it takes off as a jet then like and the blackbird's engines, transforms into a ramjet. At the highest speed that can drive it it becomes a rocket motor. If that aint cleaver?
Cool video. I seen some where that a few car company’s were looking at “camless” engines. Some were looking at an electronic solenoid type design that looked promising also..
The freevalve camless sounds like a good way for a piston to smack a valve. At least with a standard engine, this is quite unlikely as unless a timing belt or chain slips or breaks or a valve collet comes off. Also, #7 the opposed piston engine was first built by Jumo in WW2 as a diesel plane, then modified by the British to make the Deltic post war. It is an old design, but really an untapped idea I believe.
The EM drive was finally proven to not work as advertised by a lab in Germany. It was tested on a torsion balance in the usual two directions, and found to emit micro-thrust. But then they rotated it 90 degrees and found abnormal thrust. They turned the EM drive off and only put power to the electronics and found it was generating the same thrust. Concluding that it was an interaction between the twisted pair wiring and the Earth's magnetic field. And it's a REALLY good thing it doesn't work, because reactionless drive systems are the stuff of science fiction nightmares.
The OPOC EM100 isin't a new idea. There have been countless opposed piston engines, Like the Junkers Jumo 205 and the Napier deltic engine, and Commer ts3 engine. They have been used commercially of years in cars, trucks and even airplanes.
as a boat/specialist engine maybe, given its far too wide, even for a truck. it has to overcome emissions restrictions and being a two stroke design does not make that easy. the commer knocker was notoriously loud, so it'll absolutely need a turbo.
sixmagpies although you're not wrong on two stroke diesels being the current most efficient engines, you forget at which scale we are. we are speaking about 100 Liters and up engines, a completely different class than the OPOC. IF. IF it manages the same levels of effiency, then it might bring good. i'm still waiting for ilmor to power some hot rod and prove themselves with their 5 stroke engine.... As far as we speak, we're looking at a test bench engine. even a hot air engine looks great on a bench.
The camless engine isn't a new idea, either. International built a technology demonstrator back in 1996 which used electrohydraulic valve actuation, and even worked with Sturman Industries to produce an engine which raced to the top of Pike's Peak back in 2000.
I was going to say the same thing... camless engine is not new. They've been using hydraulic and electromagnetically actuated valves in F1 engines for years. The free valve is perhaps the first production application of the concept for public consumption.
Modern Electronics are very fragile! They are sensitive to heat and voltage surges. If they are computer controlled then they could be prone to software glitches. Too much digital and too many IC's
i put the free valve idea out there years ago. I called it the servo P. short for servo-actuator positioning engine. Im glad to see someone was listening. piece out!
yay no clickbait! However I will say that the EM drive doesn't have much promise. Although it does produce thrust, most of the more reliable tests show that it produces thrust in accordance with Einstein's E = mC^2. In other words, energy has mass, so this doesn't violate any laws. The engine produces less thrust than a flashlight though, so we probably won't see it working... ever. Moreover, there is this neat saying that goes "friends don't let friend use reactionless drives"
Cyberdemon 1337 Misleading, unless this engine creates that compressed air pressure it is a mere motor and not an engine. An engine produces power, a motor is a load. The former is a processor, the latter is a converter.
lucas poussard Yes, I know, automobiles being powered by compressed air; a pneumatic motor, not an engine! Ciudad de Mexico has a fleet of taxies powered by compressed air!
The Duke engine geometry has existed in A/C compressors for a very long time. A quick Wiki search shows that the first instance of a combustion Axial engine was in 1911.
Thanks for talking about the EM drive. I didn't expect that on this list. FYI, a spacecraft can remain in orbit without a propulsion system. Rockets are only required for maneuvers.
It's not meant as a motor it's meant as an electrical generator, the piston would have a magnet in it and get thrown back and forth through a coil wrapped around the cylinder
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@Bill Williams that's why IMSA and Mickey Thompson banned them from racing. The rotary engine has gone a long ways with carbon impregnated apex seals. Whether a motor is full race or stone stock rebuild kits are $80 ...
@@izzysykopth dont forget FIA did as well because they couldnt keep up with it. you forgot a zero with the rebuild kits. i've never seen one below $700.
please.. making a video with high speech content, make sure you articulate and modulate enough the voice in order for listeners to stay on it, alert, otherwise it's just a waste of.. energy !
Cool vid definitely appreciate the lack of click bait. I Wonder if the makers of some took their ideas directly from historic engines or just a bit of inspiration. 8 is definitely similar to the Barsanti & Matteuci 7 is a twin Kansas City lightning engine. 6 can be found almost exactly as its shown in the technical museum in Kerkade, NL And 1 seems to be an advanced cross between a McVicker gearless and a Franklin valveless engine. Keep up the good work!
Before I discovered it was already a thing, I actually designed a camless engine in my notebook at school... It was like the free valve, accept it was more basic and only used basic computer stuff, or maybe hydraulics, to get the valves going. My design never was built, but I figure it'd be hard to start without advanced understanding of how I could make it start up right. Maybe a separate mode just for starting.
kor'vre believe it or not einstienes theory of relativity is a red herring.. everything is held in place by a spinning electromagnetic field.. nobody would listen to tesla but its true
because it literally defies physics, it was built by some people with basic materials in a garage, and scientists with much higher fidelity equipment didn't get it running thus, sensor error.
thats not related at all. its the fact that it was built by a few people in a garage with sub par equipment and materials, and when scientists tried to recreate it with much higher quality sensors, equipment and materials, it just sat there, thus sensor error.
i could make anti gravity in my garage with sub par equipment.. many things such as what they made are covered up, it likely does not work if it got as far as it did though publicly
Pretty much the best battery for solar IMO are Nickel Iron Batteries would be better they are extremely resilient have a life of 40years+, don't have the power density of Lithium ion but that does not matter really if its for storing energy for home etc as you dont need to be moving them about.
The Yacht Club My father owned three Rx7s. Two lasted till 240 000 kilometers, one lasted till 480 000 km. My Rx7 is now on its second engine, changed out around 350 000km. Most people who damage the rotary engine and claim it is unreliable either abuse it and blow a seal (which is uncommon if well maintained), don't keep up with maintenance, or run it low on oil.
Chris Barbati still the user has to really check the levels of oil and water or its goodbye, witch was a problem as people dont know shit they just drive, making it end its day in a sportscar only. the fuel economy was bad at least for Europe as it drank gas crazy, and often liked to have some oil mixed in too. its light weight and it can rev extremly high, but it was not the sollution just another working engine, i think most of these is that ir worse to, they will never be used as they has problems that makes them worse than what we already use, burning more oil is not a final answer at all.
There are also LPE’s ( lego pneumatic engine) which like the paper engine runs on air. I’ve built some myself, they are composed of lego pneumatic cylinders and valves but the problem with these is the engine balance since the valves need to open after the cylinder reached tdc
Concerning the freevalve. Wait till a driver screws up on oil changed. I've seen so many problems. The pressure is applied via oil and without good clean oil it stops working.
Binary Zombie, You haven't looked at the freevalve tech right? It is not driven by oil, but it is air actuated. And Koenigsegg has actually modified a saab 9-5 and put the freevalve system in it several years ago, and has put a significant amount of miles on it since then. They have created one or two generations after that as well. There is actually quite a lot of videos about it. I would recommend looking into it if engines interest you. A surprisingly simple system which doesn't seem to pose a huge reliability issue. =)
I can't imagine electronically controlled pneumatically actuated valves being any cheaper than camshaft driven ones. A shit ton of electronics and precision machined parts can not compete in price with a piece of metal.
F1 engines have been camless for long time. Valve springs cannot move fast enough above 14000 RPM, so they use electronically controlled pneumatic valves.
Cody Colosi Sadly we can't do that for very long. Tbh I like the idea of electric (or other inovative engines) in cars for everyday drivers without interests in cars/bikes, etc. They don't need the feeling of gas and we petrolheads could still drive our gas cars, wich would be a very small amount then.
renewable fuels would be the best option, imo. they can be used with existing technology, are cleaner and can run better than fossil fuels. I mean the diesel engine was originally intended to run on peanut oil, until oil companies got hold of it. electric vehicles are just a band aid, and if powered by electricity produced from fossil fuels only move their pollution from one area to another. not to mention the batteries.
Working on a Solar Linear Stirling Pump using unconventional design that has 3 moving parts. The original has 2 moving parts, but conventional check valves restrict operation capability, so, we have designed our own check valves and will be testing the design this coming week.
The Sabre engine's best use would be for sub-orbital flight. You could get from London to Tokyo in a matter of hours. My thought on the EM drive is that it is pushing against photons. A greater portion of the EM energy escapes the chamber on one side than the other. Photons, have mass after all, even if minuscule. However, another possibility is that when exposed to an exosphere it induces trace plasma particles in the exosphere and propels them mostly in one direction, where they then disperse back into their rarefied gas form as plasma does when it's unconstrained. Photons might actually always do this, pulling a stream of plasma along with them, hence adding substantially to the mass of the photons.
That freevalve is kick ass idea. No longer do you have to grind cams and meticulously install and break them in, just go to your tuner with your wants, have him/her clickity clack together your dreams, and enjoy your new performance!
You forgot about the MYT engine, the Coates headed engine, the Big Mouth free piston engine and a few others too. Those could have been placed on the list rather than the mislabeled motors.
opposed piston engines have been used in diesel and bunker c marine applications for decades, this opposed piston engine does differ though in the way the engine drives linear generators, very smart innovation thinking forward to new fuels.
Congrats for showing things already introduced to UA-cam. I should start a channel too. All you gotta do is play videos covering old information and technology
The Duke Axial is in fact a Jenny pump made for combustion. The design is rather smart because it will provide the exact same power both ways without chancing the direction of rotation of the motor. The secret is in chancing the orientation of the swash plate. Very much alike the drive of a helicopter blade and not surprising has the same name.
the duke engine is just a axial piston pump / motor converted to IC so no problems with friction / service life , as there a millions of of axial piston motors in use
To store the energy of the solar sterling engine i would use it to pump water up into a tower, then when needed allow the water to drop down onto a pelton wheel to produce electricity.
I know Chrysler Tigershark motor don’t have a cam controlling the valves on the Intake side. I always thought that was a pretty good idea but I always though why stop there and just make both sides controlled by actuators. Not a bad idea. It would make it a lot more efficient in the long run being that it’s VVT capability is going to be unrestricted and can even gain more efficiency. Also, I’m sure by a simple tune in a V8 platform can give you the same performance and sound as a fat nasty cam too without having to replace a camshaft. There’s so many benefits to this.
Congrats for not clickbaiting.
go fuck yourself
Why are these immature brats so triggered?
were you talking about me? I said that because someone was posting spam messages like the one above this comment. I guess it was removed
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@Evi1M4chine And you're not supposed to post clickbait yet it ruins 80% of youtube.
Awesome! A "cool engines" video where the thumbnail is actually in the video!
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Very well done. Your narrative was concise and informative, the background music was just that, background as it should be. Not some overwhelming headbanging. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank yo.
I came here to see the spherical engine in the thumbnail. I was totally expecting clickbait and the need to dredge the comments to find it. Thanks for not doing that!
Mark Speir it was the first one dude
That was the point... he said he was happy it WASN'T clickbait
There's a first time for most everything.
2:20 - The Napier Deltic is the big grandfather of this engine. It has 36 pistons in 18 cylinders, arranged in a delta configuration of 6 banks, is a two-stroke Diesel engine, and develops up to about 2,500 horsepower. The 'Baby Deltic' has half the number of banks. The Deltic was developed from a 1930's Junkers Jumo 204 design under license. The engines were variously used in aircraft, military boats, railway locomotives, and even in a New York Fire Service water pump. They were sometimes used in pairs; 72 pistons in 36 cylinders. So the basic design of the engine in the video is at least 85 years old.
The Duke engine is an adaptation of a fairly common air conditioning compressor. I often wondered if it could be adapted to become an internal combustion engine. Cool that someone did it.
wow good video, usually these videos are just stuff I have seen a hundred times or more but the Columbia uni engine is truely something of a new one on me and a rather interesting take on a hydro power. however the solenoid engine has been done a number of times over the years with little information going public due to the expected short comings of reliability but well done, great content
Good video, *IF* you didn't hope to get any technical explanation - or any understanding at all, for that matter - on how the engines work.
Just by the way, WTF is with the weird accent? Never heard anything like it, it doesn't seem to match up with my (limited) knowledge of US regionals accents.
#6 the Duke axial reminds me of a AC compressor in a car if you ever take my part that kind of look the same
It looked to me like a fixed displacement axial hydraulic pump.....or motor
I thought the same thing, swash plate crank design.
I'm sure we will see a lot more from Koenigsegg in the future. They're a genius company.
As always, good video ;)
Thanks, yeah Koenigsegg is an awesome company! This video took awhile lol so its good to see you like it, I hope you don't mind the faster paced ones but I get busy with school/work sometimes.
JD Rock I'm busy with school too...
I know the struggle^^
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agree that koenigsegg is a truly inovative company (as well as from my country😀).
Erik Granqvist You live in a beautiful country buddy ;)
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3:25
problem is is the fact that stirling engines have used this for a long time aswell
they arnt inviting a new engine, just revisiting and updating a existing system
"mach 25" Holy shit!
Mach 25 is about the orbital velocity, you can't fly any faster without escaping Earth's gravity.
depends on your altitude and eccentricity
***** Regardless of either, 11.1-something km/s is escape velocity, if you're at that speed anywhere around Earth, you'll shoot into outer space. Low altitude orbital velocity is about 8 km/s i.e. Mach 22. Moving 30% faster breaks circular/elliptic orbit into non-looping infinite line and you fly out and never return. For the reference, escape velocity of the Sun is 617.5 km/s though - super hard to reach. Fastest moving man-made object only runs ~40 km/s.
neat :o
Actually, at Mach 25 you ARE at escape velocity.
The sabre engine is already made. its not used in any aircraft or spacecraft yet, it works. VERY well.
Gabriel Bailey spacecrafts? they are no such thing even.
@@agentumsilwersilwer5310 Yeah, there are. A shuttle is a spacecraft.
The "Opec" engine seems to be the most practical option and even the "next" logical evolutionary step in the well known "boxer" engine. All, aside from the "bacterial" engine, seem to have probable applications in the future if properly refined. In my humble opinion, magnetics will play a big part in future powertrains both on a planet and in space.
Thank you for actually showing the engine thats in the thumbnail, really cool!
"You see those experimental engines? They’ve got curved pistons. Curved. Pistons." - Whiterun Guard, probably
This was a surprisingly good video, no bullshit, everything possible or theoretically possible (that EM space drive is based on some really weird quantum mechanics, bu then again, everything is weird with quantum mechanics), no click bait, and well articulated.
Relay engine's are getting better, I'd like to see more push towards renewable biofuel especially for whole house heating.
the most effective way to heat a house is ground heat exchange, costs like 20$ to heat it in the winter
Thank you for putting this compilation up .
Edit title: top 10 coolest engines
No not all of them
Working on a reciprocating permanent magnet motor-generator, using superconducting wire and combustion of methane gas. Compressing the magnetic field of a neodymium magnet is a way to "momentarily" store energy from the combustion of methane gas, in that balancing motion & mass is like putting a spring between two freight trains moving head on, even when both trains are moving at exactly at the same rate and have exactly the same mass the trains will still be going through that force that pushes & bends. Balancing the center-points & controlling vibration & lost motion seems to be the key ingredient concerning the top 10 strangest engines, I love this video and would like to see more like this!
The OPOC EM100 engine is just 1/3 of the Delta engine that still runs trains in England and was a spoil of war designed by the Germans in WW2 and reverse engineered by the Brittish to use in their long haul transit system....Many blessings , SMR
British like to rip-off other people's tech ideas, and call it their own
3:44 Latest update on Wikipedia says:
In July 2021 the UK Space Agency provided a further £3.9m for continued development.
Great show. The Saber engine is even more remarkable than you mentioned. First, it takes off as a jet then like and the blackbird's engines, transforms into a ramjet. At the highest speed that can drive it it becomes a rocket motor. If that aint cleaver?
sure is!
It seems the Sabre engine was a 3-in-1 machine as you saw it.. What was the possible reason why its not commonly used as an aircraft engine?...
Cool video. I seen some where that a few car company’s were looking at “camless” engines. Some were looking at an electronic solenoid type design that looked promising also..
brief informative and not an insult to intelligence
lol this right here is why we can't have nice things.
Em drive ain't real son, most definitely an "insult to intelligence"
gh hg It was clearly stated that it may not actually work as theorised, but it is real
Lots of clever smart people out there. Videos like this are inspiring as we get to see that we do have "thinkers" among us. Thanks for the video.
I thought this was definitely clickbait, pleasantly surprised
'Engineless engine'
I rarely give likes out, you deserve it for not click bait or fake news
Felix Hong it is fake news. Em drive is not real. It's a scam. Doesn't work a bit.
Thanks, very informative. Thumbs up
Tho i am surprised that you didn't talk about Tesla! but its fine ;D
Very good video..well made, informative and fun.
The freevalve camless sounds like a good way for a piston to smack a valve. At least with a standard engine, this is quite unlikely as unless a timing belt or chain slips or breaks or a valve collet comes off.
Also, #7 the opposed piston engine was first built by Jumo in WW2 as a diesel plane, then modified by the British to make the Deltic post war. It is an old design, but really an untapped idea I believe.
The EM drive was finally proven to not work as advertised by a lab in Germany. It was tested on a torsion balance in the usual two directions, and found to emit micro-thrust. But then they rotated it 90 degrees and found abnormal thrust. They turned the EM drive off and only put power to the electronics and found it was generating the same thrust. Concluding that it was an interaction between the twisted pair wiring and the Earth's magnetic field.
And it's a REALLY good thing it doesn't work, because reactionless drive systems are the stuff of science fiction nightmares.
The OPOC EM100 isin't a new idea. There have been countless opposed piston engines, Like the Junkers Jumo 205 and the Napier deltic engine, and Commer ts3 engine. They have been used commercially of years in cars, trucks and even airplanes.
Cool, thanks for the info! Do you think the OPOC will be marketable?
as a boat/specialist engine maybe, given its far too wide, even for a truck.
it has to overcome emissions restrictions and being a two stroke design does not make that easy. the commer knocker was notoriously loud, so it'll absolutely need a turbo.
sixmagpies although you're not wrong on two stroke diesels being the current most efficient engines, you forget at which scale we are. we are speaking about 100 Liters and up engines, a completely different class than the OPOC.
IF. IF it manages the same levels of effiency, then it might bring good.
i'm still waiting for ilmor to power some hot rod and prove themselves with their 5 stroke engine....
As far as we speak, we're looking at a test bench engine. even a hot air engine looks great on a bench.
Deltic was the first thing that came to my mind too. BR Class 55's were powered by it as well as small warships like PT craft.
Grease not to mention the boxer engine lol
That Bacterial Spores engine is phenomenal in that it can be used to generate not locomotion but power.
The camless engine isn't a new idea, either. International built a technology demonstrator back in 1996 which used electrohydraulic valve actuation, and even worked with Sturman Industries to produce an engine which raced to the top of Pike's Peak back in 2000.
douro20 full on VTEC yo.. lol
douro20 Hey, I like cams, there so analog
I'd rather have cams than expensive electronic parts, considering I can make a cam but cant' make the electric parts without a lot of fuss
I was going to say the same thing... camless engine is not new. They've been using hydraulic and electromagnetically actuated valves in F1 engines for years. The free valve is perhaps the first production application of the concept for public consumption.
Modern Electronics are very fragile! They are sensitive to heat and voltage surges. If they are computer controlled then they could be prone to software glitches. Too much digital and too many IC's
i put the free valve idea out there years ago. I called it the servo P. short for servo-actuator positioning engine. Im glad to see someone was listening. piece out!
technically you could change between 2 & 4 stroke on the fly...
yay no clickbait!
However I will say that the EM drive doesn't have much promise. Although it does produce thrust, most of the more reliable tests show that it produces thrust in accordance with Einstein's E = mC^2.
In other words, energy has mass, so this doesn't violate any laws. The engine produces less thrust than a flashlight though, so we probably won't see it working... ever. Moreover, there is this neat saying that goes "friends don't let friend use reactionless drives"
Thanks for not making us wait until the end of the video to see the engine in the thumbnail :)
#9 This is not an engine! This is a motor, that is all. Engines consume fuel releasing heat energy that is transformed into mechanical power.
That second to last engine is BS, you might as well push this as a microwave photon drive instead of a virtual plasma drive.
You never heard of a compressed air engine?!
Cyberdemon 1337 Misleading, unless this engine creates that compressed air pressure it is a mere motor and not an engine. An engine produces power, a motor is a load. The former is a processor, the latter is a converter.
air propelled cars do exists
lucas poussard Yes, I know, automobiles being powered by compressed air; a pneumatic motor, not an engine!
Ciudad de Mexico has a fleet of taxies powered by compressed air!
This was really nice video because of all these demo videos and animations. I really liked to see them running.
Two more to consider:
1) dynacam/revolver/Papp Axial
2) scuderi split cycle
The Duke engine geometry has existed in A/C compressors for a very long time. A quick Wiki search shows that the first instance of a combustion Axial engine was in 1911.
5:34 Fail at that point. This vid was supposed to be about engines, not pipedreams or delusions.
holy crap, the camless engine is so smart. How has that not been done already in production vehicles?
Jonathan Brazeau the new koenigseggs don't have camshafts
The duke engine looks like the inside of a cars ac compressor
Thanks for talking about the EM drive. I didn't expect that on this list.
FYI, a spacecraft can remain in orbit without a propulsion system. Rockets are only required for maneuvers.
so the 'free piston' is a shittier boxer motor
Yes, waaaaaay shittier
It's not meant as a motor it's meant as an electrical generator, the piston would have a magnet in it and get thrown back and forth through a coil wrapped around the cylinder
Outstanding! You should also check out the Toroidal piston engine invented by Everett Harrington Black Jr. (my dad).
I thought making paper hats was cool... this nigga be making v8's...
wtf is up with "nigga"?
In this context, it's general-purpose slang equivalent to “gangsta”, which is slang that has one possible meaning of “someone who totally owns their game” (with “game” being slang for “craft, profession, area of expertise, etc.”).
You got my like for the SABRE engine! Sweet!
wankel rotary should have been included before the sillly paper engine, whilst amazing is not really an engine per se. Rotary-POWA!
@Bill Williams that's why IMSA and Mickey Thompson banned them from racing. The rotary engine has gone a long ways with carbon impregnated apex seals. Whether a motor is full race or stone stock rebuild kits are $80 ...
@@izzysykopth dont forget FIA did as well because they couldnt keep up with it. you forgot a zero with the rebuild kits. i've never seen one below $700.
-So, You think the V8 paper engine is gonna go places?
-Not really.It's mainly stationary!
please.. making a video with high speech content, make sure you articulate and modulate enough the voice in order for listeners to stay on it, alert, otherwise it's just a waste of.. energy !
1:25, the only downside is that the power can't transfered and it is not in a boxer config
Number 6, this a swash-plate engine updated from 1960's. Nothing new here.
something used on torpedoes if i recall correctly
Cool vid definitely appreciate the lack of click bait.
I Wonder if the makers of some took their ideas directly from historic engines or just a bit of inspiration.
8 is definitely similar to the Barsanti & Matteuci
7 is a twin Kansas City lightning engine.
6 can be found almost exactly as its shown in the technical museum in Kerkade, NL
And 1 seems to be an advanced cross between a McVicker gearless and a Franklin valveless engine.
Keep up the good work!
Well, the EM Drive didnt age well.
Before I discovered it was already a thing, I actually designed a camless engine in my notebook at school... It was like the free valve, accept it was more basic and only used basic computer stuff, or maybe hydraulics, to get the valves going. My design never was built, but I figure it'd be hard to start without advanced understanding of how I could make it start up right. Maybe a separate mode just for starting.
discredited because you mentioned the em drive
kor'vre believe it or not einstienes theory of relativity is a red herring.. everything is held in place by a spinning electromagnetic field.. nobody would listen to tesla but its true
because it literally defies physics, it was built by some people with basic materials in a garage, and scientists with much higher fidelity equipment didn't get it running thus, sensor error.
thats not related at all. its the fact that it was built by a few people in a garage with sub par equipment and materials, and when scientists tried to recreate it with much higher quality sensors, equipment and materials, it just sat there, thus sensor error.
i could make anti gravity in my garage with sub par equipment.. many things such as what they made are covered up, it likely does not work if it got as far as it did though publicly
you literally cannot make anti gravity via any current known physics or technologies. otherwise, prove me wrong
The Duke is the old Waterbury Speed Pump used to cancel warship's roll to allow main guns to aim well.
5:25 - Ask Tesla about a Powerwall.
Pretty much the best battery for solar IMO are Nickel Iron Batteries would be better they are extremely resilient have a life of 40years+, don't have the power density of Lithium ion but that does not matter really if its for storing energy for home etc as you dont need to be moving them about.
I don't think the Powerwall would handle 30 kW, at least not very efficiently. But if it could handle all the power, probably not a bad idea.
The Sabre Hybrid Engine is now completly tested and almost ready for take off. Awesome!
The EmDrive sadly has failed.
The EM drive is a scam.
Great video!
the opac is nothing more than a junkers engine-used by the Germans pi re WWII
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O.P.O.C. not opac
opac you say? That reminds me of smokey and the bandit 2
the OPOC engine is a variant of the old Junkers two-cycle opposed piston diesel engine design.
strangest engine and most sucessful reliable when maintained.... The Wankel Rotary efini Rx7's
There's no way you can even argue that the Wankel engine is remotely reliable when compared to other common engine designs
The Yacht Club My father owned three Rx7s. Two lasted till 240 000 kilometers, one lasted till 480 000 km. My Rx7 is now on its second engine, changed out around 350 000km.
Most people who damage the rotary engine and claim it is unreliable either abuse it and blow a seal (which is uncommon if well maintained), don't keep up with maintenance, or run it low on oil.
Chris Barbati still the user has to really check the levels of oil and water or its goodbye, witch was a problem as people dont know shit they just drive, making it end its day in a sportscar only.
the fuel economy was bad at least for Europe as it drank gas crazy, and often liked to have some oil mixed in too.
its light weight and it can rev extremly high, but it was not the sollution just another working engine, i think most of these is that ir worse to, they will never be used as they has problems that makes them worse than what we already use, burning more oil is not a final answer at all.
amazing you content and your channel.
yup.
I likked my own comment.
thanks!
People and now watch some car videos :)
I don't understand that sentence.
@@jeevesmcqueeves yeah me either, I'm not hurting my brain anymore with this shit 😭😭😂
There are also LPE’s ( lego pneumatic engine) which like the paper engine runs on air. I’ve built some myself, they are composed of lego pneumatic cylinders and valves but the problem with these is the engine balance since the valves need to open after the cylinder reached tdc
Nissan has made the variable compression engine it went right over your head
That was first designed back in the 1920's by Harry Ricardo.Peugeot,Saab and Citroen even had a go at it.
How did Nissan make the variable compression engine go over his head?
Over head engine, better than over head cam.
If an engine goes over your head, it either wasn't fastened properly or has exploded.
Agree, that engine is in my top 5 along with the liquid piston engine
Well done and entertaining video.
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Good collection of engines! I hope at least some of these make it into production.
I'm sorry but those are not long lasting engines especially the free valve. cars have more then enough electronic crap strapped to the engine.
Concerning the freevalve. Wait till a driver screws up on oil changed. I've seen so many problems. The pressure is applied via oil and without good clean oil it stops working.
Binary Zombie, You haven't looked at the freevalve tech right?
It is not driven by oil, but it is air actuated. And Koenigsegg has actually modified a saab 9-5 and put the freevalve system in it several years ago, and has put a significant amount of miles on it since then. They have created one or two generations after that as well.
There is actually quite a lot of videos about it. I would recommend looking into it if engines interest you. A surprisingly simple system which doesn't seem to pose a huge reliability issue. =)
Koenigseggs freevalv works they even are bilding Engines with it now for a car builder! in china!
Renault have used this freevalve system for around 20 years....
I can't imagine electronically controlled pneumatically actuated valves being any cheaper than camshaft driven ones. A shit ton of electronics and precision machined parts can not compete in price with a piece of metal.
F1 engines have been camless for long time. Valve springs cannot move fast enough above 14000 RPM, so they use electronically controlled pneumatic valves.
Frankly let's stick to normal engines in cars.
Cody Colosi Sadly we can't do that for very long. Tbh I like the idea of electric (or other inovative engines) in cars for everyday drivers without interests in cars/bikes, etc. They don't need the feeling of gas and we petrolheads could still drive our gas cars, wich would be a very small amount then.
We just need to find better ways of generating electricity that doesn't require burning coal.
Fusion :)
LFT - Molton Salt Reactor
renewable fuels would be the best option, imo. they can be used with existing technology, are cleaner and can run better than fossil fuels. I mean the diesel engine was originally intended to run on peanut oil, until oil companies got hold of it. electric vehicles are just a band aid, and if powered by electricity produced from fossil fuels only move their pollution from one area to another. not to mention the batteries.
Working on a Solar Linear Stirling Pump using unconventional design that has 3 moving parts. The original has 2 moving parts, but conventional check valves restrict operation capability, so, we have designed our own check valves and will be testing the design this coming week.
The Sabre engine's best use would be for sub-orbital flight. You could get from London to Tokyo in a matter of hours.
My thought on the EM drive is that it is pushing against photons. A greater portion of the EM energy escapes the chamber on one side than the other. Photons, have mass after all, even if minuscule. However, another possibility is that when exposed to an exosphere it induces trace plasma particles in the exosphere and propels them mostly in one direction, where they then disperse back into their rarefied gas form as plasma does when it's unconstrained. Photons might actually always do this, pulling a stream of plasma along with them, hence adding substantially to the mass of the photons.
That freevalve is kick ass idea. No longer do you have to grind cams and meticulously install and break them in, just go to your tuner with your wants, have him/her clickity clack together your dreams, and enjoy your new performance!
Solar Sterling is sweet.. Maybe ceramic storage?.. Pneumatic valves at 6:30 were developed by Williams F1 decades ago.
As a maritime engineer I say awesome video. Thanks.
This Channel is damn interesting. Please keep it up and keep releasing cool content.
You forgot about the MYT engine, the Coates headed engine, the Big Mouth free piston engine and a few others too. Those could have been placed on the list rather than the mislabeled motors.
opposed piston engines have been used in diesel and bunker c marine applications for decades, this opposed piston engine does differ though in the way the engine drives linear generators, very smart innovation thinking forward to new fuels.
Great content! I had no idea several of these engines existed.
Congrats for showing things already introduced to UA-cam. I should start a channel too. All you gotta do is play videos covering old information and technology
For our level of available tech compared to 20-30 years they sure are taking their sweet ass time getting these engines into mass production
Number 5 has my attention, that is one hell of a serious Engine. Thanks for the share!
The Duke Axial is in fact a Jenny pump made for combustion. The design is rather smart because it will provide the exact same power both ways without chancing the direction of rotation of the motor. The secret is in chancing the orientation of the swash plate. Very much alike the drive of a helicopter blade and not surprising has the same name.
I think that is very interesting and informative.
the duke engine is just a axial piston pump / motor converted to IC so no problems with friction / service life , as there a millions of of axial piston motors in use
I really liked this video. glad I stumbled across it. I love seeing the new innovations in engine technology.
You should check out the Mitey Engine too. Neat concept in action. Gas and diesel for life with me. As long as they create sweet sounding notes.
I can't wait for the SABRE to become flight-ready
To store the energy of the solar sterling engine i would use it to pump water up into a tower, then when needed allow the water to drop down onto a pelton wheel to produce electricity.
I know Chrysler Tigershark motor don’t have a cam controlling the valves on the Intake side. I always thought that was a pretty good idea but I always though why stop there and just make both sides controlled by actuators.
Not a bad idea. It would make it a lot more efficient in the long run being that it’s VVT capability is going to be unrestricted and can even gain more efficiency.
Also, I’m sure by a simple tune in a V8 platform can give you the same performance and sound as a fat nasty cam too without having to replace a camshaft. There’s so many benefits to this.
The duke engine is modeled after the swashplate a/c compressor that has been used for many years in automotive applications
Something similar as Duke engine was used in torpedoes - Swashplate engine if I remember correctly.
Gravity based energy storage systems would work great in tandem with the sterling csp engine.