Matthew,
I think you may be underestemating the power needed to generate the extremely
high speed/energy photons that will be necessary to generate an infared beam
able to combust air. A car battery may be able to do it, but will be shortly
drained, the energy will need to be replaced by electricity formed by the
alternator - as the battery accepts charge and reduces resistance in the
cuircut, the alternator becomes harder to turn, which will cause the necessary
force of the explosion in the cylinder to rise in order to push the piston down.
The force generated by the explosion of 10 cubic centimeters of air is much much
less than the force generated by the explosion of 10 cubic centimeters of
gasoline and the force of the air may not be enough to keep the engine running
while also powering the infared beam. You could get it to work if you run the
beam off an independant power source (such as a gasoline powered engine) but
this would defeat the entire purpose of building it in the first place. Or,
you could compress the air into a very small fraction of its original volume
inside the cylider before you ignite it. However air has a nasty habit of
turning into a blue liquid when highly compressed, an infared beam may not be
able to travel through the liquid and ignite it, even if you could get it to
ignite, the forces needed to compress the air into such a high pressure may be
greater than the power you can get out of it in a cycle.
Perhaps you should look hydrogen as your fuel source (the oceans are full of
hydrogen right?) it may provided more power per cubic centimeter than air and
you don't have to pay for expensive gasoline. Also you don't need such high
temperatures to ignite it. I don't know of any materials that hold up to the
heat of the sun, I think you may end up melting your piston.
Did you ever think about using your idea to heat water into steam, then using
the steam to turn a turbine generator. If you can think of a way to generate a
concentrated infared beam (using only a small amount of power) itense enough to
boil water (quickly), you may be able to build a perpetual motion power plant.
Again, I fail to see how you can produce a low energy infared beam hot enough to
boil water, not to mention combust air?????
Maybe you can put a large version of your piston cap on the bottom of a tank of
water, then fire your infared beam through the water on to the cap, and then use
the heat to boil the water, you would need to keep the cap from melting though,
perhaps by continually rotating it.
Well I have to get off this thing now, hope I gave you some points to think
about as well as some other more feasible applications for your project. Look
forward to another reply.
Good luck,
Greg
Matthew Wagner <matt_w74656@...> wrote: part 2
The advantages of my invention is that it takes NO gas
.
That will sace you a lot of money and the engine in
performans whys "acceleration, top speed, ext" Will be
the same as a gas engine.
There is nothing pwering the infared light exept your
car battery. Scence the piston cap is only 2 inches
away from the infared light it wont need much power.


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