Alternative methods to Crank and piston engine's

[trevorjohnson83]

After Blaise Pascal proposed pressure in a closed container in 1644, inventors leaned in on a piston and didn't look back. This obvious and easy invention in my picture is cheaper, simpler to understand, the parts are far less complex then a piston. You simply let steam out of the closed container through a pipe which is blocked by a turbine of blades.

 

[BULLDOG]

You're gonna need a picture that's easier to understand.

 

[theHawk]

Rotary engine. Zero pistons.

 

[idb]

Rotary engine. Zero pistons.

True, also more power for the size....but high maintenance and higher fuel use.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

The method in the OP is very similar to a method they use in dams where you shoot a powerful jet at a set of blades and spin it really fast.

 

[Concerned American]

The method in the OP is very similar to a method they use in dams where you shoot a powerful jet at a set of blades and spin it really fast.

Isn't that basically how a jet engine works?

 

[theHawk]

True, also more power for the size....but high maintenance and higher fuel use.

They aren’t high maintenance. Way less maintenance than a piston engine. But yea they do chug gasoline.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

Isn't that basically how a jet engine works?

this is how a jet engine works.