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Benjamin Burgess
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Friday, September 19, 2008 - 03:24 pm, by:  Benjamin Burgess (Jampac)

Autospeed does tend to talk up a lot. I would take what is said with a grain of salt. Just to show a few examples of engines with huge potential that never really happened,

Orbital engine
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/australia_innovates/?behaviour=view_article&Section_id=1020&article_ id=10041
bmw's water phase engine
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/12/bmw_developing.php
Saab's varible compression engine
http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/press/000318.html
Crowers 6 stroke engine.
http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060227/FREE/302270007/1023/THISWEEKSISSUE

and many many more...

Whats really funny is a lot of these ideas, especially the run your car on water all seem to pop up when petrol prices hit new highs.

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