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Green revolution Is this the enviromentally friendly powerplant of the future? Yes, we know this claim's been made before, yet here it is again. There's a possibility that one day, heavy trucks and transit buses could be powered by the enchantingly simple engine you see here. Right now, the Green Revolution Engine is used in test applications, such as powering a rotary lawnmower by burning propane. If it proves to work, however, look out.

The Green Revolution Engine is the product of Cyclone Power Technologies, based in Pompano Beach, Florida. Unlike just about every other engine intended for automotive use, it operates on the principle of external combustion. Fuel, meaning virtually any combustible liquid or gas, is burned to heat its working fluid, de-ionized water, which moves either a turbine or pistons once it becomes a pressurized vapor.

Since the water lubricates the engine without causing corrosion, no oil pump is needed. The basic combustion process is heat-regenerative. As a result, its developers say, its fuel consumption and emissions are both considerably lower than those associated with normal small, internal-combustion engines used for mowers or other power tools. That's the popular rub that lawn care produces more emissions than the Los Angeles freeways at a dead stop, and the like.

Cyclone was founded by Harry Schoell, a self-taught engineer and marine architect who won his first patent for a hull design when he was 22. The Green Revolution Engine won a patent in 2006, and the U.S. Postal Service licensed it earlier this year for possible use in its vast fleet of delivery trucks. Cyclone has predicted that a multi- cylinder radial version could viably supplant current diesels in larger rigs. Time will tell.

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Patrick

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NoOption5L
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yea, Jay Leno has a few steam powered cars from the late 1800's

It is not *green* Bozo, you still burn fuel.

Try a sail instead.

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Mas Plak

"Bozo"? "Sail"?

dwight

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dwight

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Michael Johnson

Clown sailing. Sounds like fun.

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WindsorFox

dwight,

A response to this guy is pointless. (He leaves turds all over USENET) He'll never see it.

Patrick

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NoOption5L

"green" energy is not burning stinking peanut oil in a steam generator to power your 5.0, Patrick.

Use Wind Power, which is green, by adding a sail onto the hood of your car, and your own beer farts.

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Mas Plak

Yes it is. Biodiesel is used oil that would be tossed or recycled in some way.

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WindsorFox

Ahem. You're talking to someone who thinks that popping a sail atop a 3,000 pound motor vehicle is a viable alternative.

dwight

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dwight

I stand corrected. It's not turds, more like diarrhea.

Patrick

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NoOption5L

that is just the surface level media hype. your still burning oil making CO2

Jay Leno did a piece on steam powered cars, they have two power strokes per piston movement, 4 times more that a gas engine.

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Mas Plak

It will work in windy places and of course down hill for sure, also you can drop the engine out, gas tank, bicycle tires, cut the back half of the car off and save 2000 pounds. Na, forget it, .......a horse could just pull it. Green power for sure.

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Mas Plak

Thank you; for the peach flavored iced tea now dripping down my 20" Dell monitor. Both of them. Luckily, it's diet....

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WindsorFox

Thanks for this info Al...

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WindsorFox

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