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 relatively quickly. 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