Sharks, no... Engines! with frikin' laser's on their heads!
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Sharks, no... Engines! with frikin' laser's on their heads!
Lasers To Replace Sparkplugs In Engines?
Researchers from Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences are working with DENSO and another "large spark-plug company", *cough* NGK? *cough*
R&D type stuff, but cool to know its happening. Enables super lean burn, improved flame front propagation, etc.
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Laser sparks revolution in internal combustion engines
"At this year’s Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO: 2011), to be held in Baltimore May 1 – 6, researchers from Japan will describe the first multibeam laser system small enough to screw into an engine’s cylinder head."
Researchers from Japan's National Institutes of Natural Sciences are working with DENSO and another "large spark-plug company", *cough* NGK? *cough*
R&D type stuff, but cool to know its happening. Enables super lean burn, improved flame front propagation, etc.
Check it out.
Laser sparks revolution in internal combustion engines
"At this year’s Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO: 2011), to be held in Baltimore May 1 – 6, researchers from Japan will describe the first multibeam laser system small enough to screw into an engine’s cylinder head."
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Don't need to. No more plug wires, just a signal/power wire pair. No coils, either. So, if the system is as expensive as 4 COPs (say $150), it's break even. I'm betting that we'd buy them if they were $300 for the set, due to better efficiencies and leaner mixture. Wonder if the Megasquirt can control them?
And, think of the other cool **** you could make with them. Imagine a potato canon with laser ignition!
And, think of the other cool **** you could make with them. Imagine a potato canon with laser ignition!
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A laser powerful enough to ignite an air/fuel mixture, yet inexpensive enough to be used in consumer automobiles, will likely destroy itself in such a malfunction. This self destruction of the laser will probably occur much too quickly to have any effect on a piston.
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