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Thanks for your insite, Dave. I think that the water injection would not be problem. It is very common in industry to have water sprayers and foggers that survive all sorts of extreme conditions. Any manufacturing magazine will have ads for such nozles. Your idea of lubrication issues is definately valid. I imagine that the concept of lubricating this engine would have to be a complete re-think because of different operating temperatures and such.
Do you suspect that maybe the complete lack of news aside from the intro article is due to success, and not failure? Getting an engine like this to work flawlessly is not a 6-month endeavor. Getting it to industry is more like a 5-year endeavor.
And what about the ECU side of things? There has never been study on how to efficiently do the water injection timing/duratoin because it has never been done. Bruce can't ride on the backs of a hundred years of engineers on this one. Again, not a 6-month endeavor.
I have some faith in this one... but what's the difference between a clever idea and a good idea? Good ideas sell.
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