tom jelly wrote:

From: rx7-approval@world.std.com 
Behalf Of Shawn Keeney
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 8:43 PM
To: rx7@world.std.com
Subject: (rx7) 1" rotary engine

Saw an article in this month's Scientific America about a penny sized rotary
engine and thought some list members may be interested.

http://www.sciam.com/2001/0601issue/0601inbrief.html

Enjoy,

Shawn Keeney
93' base

 ENGINEERING

 The Little Engine That Might

Carlos Fernandez-Pello and his colleagues at the University of
California at Berkeley have been boosting the output of their
penny-size rotary internal-combustion engine-the smallest engine
ever to deliver continuous power. This mini engine, which runs on a
high-energy liquid hydrocarbon such as butane or propane, produced
four watts of electricity as of April, up from 0.7 watt in February. A
refined, more powerful version might replace batteries in laptop
computers and other portable devices. Furthermore, a version fashioned 
out of silicon could someday shrink the engine down to the size of a pinhead. 
 -Alison McCook

 
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