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Toroidal Engine Ready for Production

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-fit-in-my-segway dept.

FarceMajeur writes "Business 2.0 has a column on a recently prototyped "round engine," properly named a toroidal engine, by VGT Technologies, Inc. Nice Flash animations of the concept are here. I've always admired the Wankel engine, but it seemed more like a time bomb than a going concern. This engine is billed as the 'world's first practical Concentric Positive Displacement Engine,' meaning no eccentric rotation to generate vibration, meaning fewer catostophic failures, one would hope."

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  1. I'm taking the don'ts by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Mr. Pekau is an experienced mechanical engineer....In addition to Mr. Pekau's work, which is well documented

    IANAE, but this is likely to be a crackpot/scam venture.

    The phrasing I've quoted above, which come from the web site, are big red flags. They're trying to pitch Pekau instead of the engine. Along the lines of "he's really smart and knows what he's doing, so of course his engine works." This is how scam after scam after scam gets pitched. "Ignore all the nay-sayers, because they just don't understand what our guy has done."

    The phrase "which is well-documented" is also a tip off. Nobody says that unless it's not quite true.