> Happy New Year!
>
> Hi Paul, here is the latest news from the link on your web site
> for the
> ceramic rotary engine.  How small the prototype is?
>
> http://ceramicrotaryengines.com/
>
> Update as of December 2008   A CeTZP ceramic Wankel
> rotor has
> already been made to specification and a CeTZP ceramic
> Wankel housing and CeTZP ceramic side plates are currently being
> fabricated. We expect to assemble our small prototype ceramic Wankel
> engine in February 2009 and tests carried out thereafter.
>
>
> Marc Joseph
>
>
> "For over a century internal combustion engines have been and
> still are one
> of
> the most successful compact portable autonomous power sources
> being used in
> the
> transport of people and goods over relatively long distances
> relativelyquickly.
> Alternate power sources, such as electric motors powered by
> batteries or
> hydrogen fuel cells, suffer from energy storage problems, high capital
> costs,
> possible environmental problems and a lack of energy-delivering
> infrastructure.
> Substantial improvements in such technologies are arguably at
> least a decade
>
> away. So for the foreseeable future internal combustion engines will
> continue to
> be the dominant source of portable autonomous power. As the worldwide
> engines
> market is huge, it was worth $235 billion in 2001, there is a great
> incentive to
> improve the performance and efficiency of the internal
> combustion engine or
> see
> it eclipsed by alternate power sources. Also, as crude oil
> reserves are
> dwindling, more efficient use of this resource is required."
>
> My sentiments exactly.
>
> Paul Lamar
>
> This is interesting. We at Thorncreek have been experimenting
> with several
> different materials with reciprocating rotating engines for the
> past several
> years. Even reinforced nylon has made its ways into our
> prototypes but
> ceramics still needs to be explored.
>
> Thanks for this exciting news.
>
> Don Bedwell

Hi Don,

I did a quit search for Thorncreek on the web.  But could not find a
link for your work.  Do you have a link?  Thanks!

Marc Joseph

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