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Originally Posted by ProDarwin
Well, to be fair, you are cooling more than the exhaust. Both the Crower Six-Stroke (2006) and the Dyer Six-Stroke (1915) were able to run without a cooling system as well  |
True that. I just wanted a simple enough presentation to show the absurdity of trying to recover waste heat by spraying water into a combustion chamber full of spent exhaust gas.
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Originally Posted by ProDarwin
There is probably a reason Crower never finished his patent application, and why Dyer's engine never went anywhere 100 years ago.
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It's much the same as with HHO or magnets. Despite hard empirical proof to the contrary, some true believers will continue to push their version of how things should be. Might as well harness the power of all them midiclorions in the cells of their bodies, for all the good it'll do.