"Harbin" wrote in
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The MYTT (Massive Yet Tiny) Engine,

We've had so many "different", yet very powerful and promising engines over
the centuries. I remember seeing a tiny little engine that had 12 pistons
pumping in a rotating block, a gas engine, that only had two spark plugs
built into the fixed walls. The pistons passed the plugs at just the right
time for spark firing. The thing put out hundreds of HP, almost vibration
free and weighed little. They buried it....plain and simple. Too
efficient.

Going way back look at a Tesla Turbine by Nikola Tesla, one of his little
side projects while he was inventing your alternating current power
system/tranformers/AC motors/remote control/radio/etc. This little steam
(or gas) turbine has NO BLADES! It's just tiny disks rotating close
together:
http://www.rexresearch.com/teslatur/teslatur.htm
The steam engine business buried it. Too simple and powerful and small.
It turned up some gawd-awful RPM and put out an atrocious power to the
shaft in a tiny-by-those-days'-steam-standards package. They buried it.

Wonder how long big transportation and big oil can keep on burying these
technologies to protect the oil hogs we all drive?? Until it's all gone in
36 years?