Bill Gates Patents Plasma Injector, for Your Car

[rambo117]

[citation][nom]scotteq[/nom]HA!! Found it!IF MICROSOFT BUILT CARS..... 1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.2. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on. 3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too. 4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT" Group Licence. But, then you would have to buy more seats.. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was much more reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but would only run on 10 percent of the roads.6. The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower. 7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light. 8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. 9. The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off. 10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. 11. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft (tm) Gas.[/citation]
lol!! that was hilarious...
so true though xDD

 

[SneakySnake]

I thought he was retired

 

[Guest]

Wow, that dude is just too smart for the rest of the world!

RT
www.web-privacy.us.tc

 

[waffle911]

Not a bad idea in its own right, but there are a few problems with the oversimplification of the internal combustion process. For one thing, part of the process is the compression of the fuel/air mixture. In diesel engines, the air is compressed in the cylinder as the fuel is added, which creates simultaneous detonation of all fuel particles present due to the relatively uniform compression which causes the mixture to heat to the ignition point. In regular Otto-cycle engines, the air and fuel are introduced at the same time, but a spark plug ignites a chain reaction of sorts, a more gradual explosion from the ignition point outwards. Both of these techniques require some of the mechanical energy of other cylinders to compress the air/fuel mixture to maximize the effects of combustion. I think this would make it very tricky to execute Gate's ideas consistently and in a broad spectrum of operating environments. In particular, the sequential nature of cylinders firing order helps keep consistent energy flowing and to keep the engine action going by re-investing some of the mechanical energy to optimize the next combustion. Although, this does make some sort of sense with how the Chevy Volt works, the engine is just a petrol-powered generator charging a battery to make the electric motors go. By cutting the inefficiencies of the mechanically-based Otto-cycle by replacing it with something that offers a more direct path from the harnessing of combustion energy as electricity to powering electric motors, we could finally see the advent of an internal combustion engine that breaks past the 20-some-odd% efficiency barrier currently faced. I'm glad I wasn't the first one to think of this general implementation when the idea first popped into my head three weeks ago–now it actually stands a chance of being produced!
As for "plasma injectors", I think they're just trying to cover as many bases as they can for the future–besides, you wouldn't believe how many crazy patents for engine modifications claim to turn petrol into a super-heated (but not yet ignited!) plasma before being injected into the combustion chamber. Plus, who knows what we'll be using as fuel in 50-100 years from now.

Oh, and the Macintosh car would nowadays allow operation in Windows compatibility mode for the remaining 90% of roads, but would require the purchase and co-installation of a Windows-powered motor and the disabling of most of the key features that make it a "better" car in the first place.

 

[Guest]

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[Guest]

Mr.Gates is quite a visionary... Oh, wait a minute! What is this?

http://www.lceproject.org/en/principle/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3oAjnYZgc

 

[Guest]

quote from waffle911
"Both of these techniques require some of the mechanical energy of other cylinders to compress the air/fuel mixture to maximize the effects of combustion."

Not necessarily, a single cylinder engine doesn't have other cylinders to provide mechanical motion to compress the air/fuel mixture, it simply uses a fly wheel to store energy for the non-powered portion of the strokes.

 

[Guest]

This is a very old concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-piston_engine

 

[ricin]

April Fool's day is over.

 

[Guest]

Hi guys

Lets look at this practically

This engine is designed as a tiny footprint for a tiny car. Its purpose is not to directly drive a car but to charge a battery.

By having many of these miniature generators, you can vary the charging rate of a battery efficiently, and reliably, as you only need to run the generators needed, and a total loss of all gernerators as a breakdown would be unlikely.

The concept is like the torches you shake to generate power. In the example of this engine I assume the whole design would be optimally tuned to running at a certain frequency

 

[zodiacfml]

read the wikipedia link, yes, many have thought of this already, though i agree with above, if done well, can be used as a generator to create some electricity in a very compact size.

 

[fonzy]

Now we can have 7 versions of the same car.

 

[tipoo]

Windows Car basic edition: comes with 2 wheels to start.

 

[tenor77]

[citation][nom]fonzy[/nom]Now we can have 7 versions of the same car.[/citation]
Heh.
Truth be told GM does this already. They use the same engine in several different models from multiple makers as well (Chevy, Pontiac etc)

 

[WyomingKnott]

I'm usually very nice and ignore mis-translations, but I had to pick up on the following:

that could very well replace the traditional combustible engine,

My car has a non-combustible combustion engine. If it were combustible, it would have burned up years ago.

 

[33Nick]

Interesting though we wonder how it would fit intelligently with the current car industry market at this moment. Also, we sure hope Microsoft won't be in charge of testing for reliability. Sorry, ha to slip that one in.

Electricnick.com

 

[Guest]

God bless America, for this guys with his life time devoted could not design one Operating system bug free, I bought xp in 2000 and I still get its patches. I can imagine who irritating it would to receive car parts, someone please tell this geek to enjoy his retirement on a Glider and Ottoman with a nice fiction and if he does not like reading then ask him to watch TV.

 

[Guest]

The patent has provisions for changing the length of the stroke. This will produce a substantial increase in efficiency. When more fuel is being used, the piston needs to travel farther to give a longer burn time. I don't know of any other engine which does this. Hat's off to Mr. Bill!