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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourke_Engine

dustin, lots of great ideas never make it to market because entrenched technology, and the corporations who market it, have the muscle to keep a better mousetrap out of the public view. do a google search for "bourke engine" and you'll see what i mean. it was (and still is) incredibly fuel efficient and the exhaust, due to high heat combustion, had nearly zero hydrocarbons. new technology, you ask? nope. built in 1932...

here's a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourke_Engine

http://bourke-engine-project.com/index2.html

http://www.niquette.com/books/sophmag/bourke.htm

a quote that sums it up nicely:

"Reality is two. Two-point-zero, to be precise. When it comes to "specific horsepower," that's it. Two-point-zero is about the limit for any engine: Two-point-zero horsepower for every pound of fuel consumed in an hour...

Nobody knows how to build an engine with a specific horsepower more than two-point-zero. More than two-point-zero would give new meaning to motorized efficiency. Make that happen and you have beaten today's best engines with their extra valves and plugs and stratified charge. You have defeated Diesel and Otto and Wankel. Whatever you have there, patent the thing! Detroit is your oyster. And Tokyo and Munich. More than two-point-zero horsepower for every pound-per-hour of fuel consumed and you deserve the Medal of Freedom, the Nobel Prize. You will leave financial empires for your progeny.

The Bourke Engine operates at three-point-three."