I invented this thing in high school. I still have drawings I made showing where I would put the boiler, and how the steam engine (mine used steam driven pistons, this one uses a turbine) and the gasoline engine shared the same engine block.
I got so far as to do a proof of concept with a model airplane engine passing exhaust gas over the boiler of one of those Edmunds scientific steam engines, but never had the capacity to actually build a vehicle.
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Yeah, that's pretty cool, you shoulda patented the idea and nwo you'd be rich. You could always invent a time machine to go back and fix the mistake?
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If I'd patented it then the patent would have expired by now. I invented it in 1981.
Also, I lost a lot of steam (sorry) working on the idea when I found out that the navy was working on something called RACER (Rankine Cycle Energy Recovery) that was basically the same idea but on a much larger scale. In any case it wasn't patentable.
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Yeah, pick something that is worth making and DoD probably already hands there hands int he cookie jar one way or another.
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ya thats sad anything you try making you can patent someone is either alrdy working on it or will lure you into a dark deserted ally and strangle you so you cant patent it...
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Yeah, I don't know about all that considering they being the government is the patent office it would probaly just being easier to snag the plans for whatever it is.
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I guess in one way it feels nice to be vindicated. But I do wish I was somehow involved in reducing it to practice.
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