Sometimes the answers to the most difficult problems are simple solutions. You need not always try and figure out fancy new ways to solve existing problems, but just need to look around to find the solution. If you concentrate too much of the problem, you tend to miss the solution, and it is these simple solutions that are often hardest to find. Eric Mattessich seems to have discovered a solution to an age-old problem in engine design, and in the process is all set to create new engine dynamics.
Heat loss to the surroundings in a cycle of work is a principle of thermodynamics that is accepted in all practical engines. Every engine produces heat energy that is wasted and radiated away into the surroundings, and that holds good true for the engine as well. Now Eric wishes to tap into this wasted heat energy that usually makes the exhaust pipe of the car red hot and use it to further power the vehicle. So how does he do that?
The process is neither new nor is it complicated. Just like heat energy is tapped into in a thermal station to generate electricity, he wishes to generate electricity from the heat of the exhaust. This electric energy, along with the energy from the main engine, will be combined to turn an electric engine. According to Eric, this increases car efficiency by 20% and reduces pollution and emissions by 20%. Eric has already applied for a patent to the technology and is working on his dual power generating engine.
Via: Popsci
