They’re supposed to show up in cars in 5 years.
Of course, it could be like the 42V electrical systems we were supposed to be seeing in cars by now.
There’s a Star Trek joke lurking in there somewhere.
“partial oxidation reaction”
You mean you inject the air/fuel mixture, and it RUSTS, and then you burn the rusted air/fuel mixture a microsecond later?
Is that what that means?
Rust is a slow form of oxidation, fire is a fast form of oxidation.
Captain, the plasmatron is destabilizing! We have to abandon ship!
[Homer]Ahhh, that’s the stuff…[/H]
Great news. If the Plasmatron is only five years away, surely the Orgasmatron will quickly follow.
Feh. Stupid scientists. They should know by now that all they have to do is follow the tracion fields and reverse the deflector dish and their problems will be solved.
What the heck is “atomized” fuel?
Ever use a spray bottle? Similar thing, but the spray from an atomizer is much finer – like a spritz of cologne or one of those athsma inhalers. (Or is the latter a nebulizer, since it makes a ‘fog’?)
Oh, basically a carburettor is an atomizer. It creates a mist of about one part fuel with fifteen parts air.
No no no. You have to stabilize the magnetic gyrodyne relays and reverse the polarity of the plasma manifolds. Then you have to adjust the intermix ratio to compensate for the ionizing radiation while keeping the plasma flow in phase with the graviton flux. I know, I know, it sounds simple, but really it’s a lot more complicated.
Neat. Sounds like a way to run a spark-ignition engine with the same temperatures and pressures as a diesel-- and therefore achieve the same high efficiencies, without producing the smog-forming NOx emissions that are normally formed when air is superheated. Only questions I have are how much energy is consumed in the ionization process, and how much of the chemical energy in the fuel is lost when it “partially oxidizes”; is the CO[sub]2[/sub] also injected into the engine, or is it run directly to the catalytic converter?
Dammit! 7up Plus all over the keyboard! you’d think I’d know better than to drink while reading. :smack:
Another keyboard destroyed. My work here is done. 
A Raytheon scientist received a patent on such an engine, back in the late 1970s. Thge idea wroks, but it is a tricky thing to have work under automobile conditions. I suspect that implementing the system will be quite expensive. But who knows? Chrysler was all set to make two-stroke automobile engines in the 1990’s-better fuel economy, no valves, cheap to make…but the engines could not pass the emissions standards, and had longevity issues. So, this is a good idea, but how practicable? Nobody knows.