More Efficient Internal Combustion Engine?

A reader in New Zealand wants to discuss his new generation internal combustion engine (ICE), designed to take full advantage of the high power density available with the two/stroke engine principle while overcoming the inherent limitations of the conventional design. Sure, I’d love to know more about that, and I eagerly anticipate his call. But I have to say that this technology appears to combine two things of which I’m deeply skeptical: ICEs and hydrogren.

I like to think I’m good at keeping an open mind, but I’m afraid that there is very little to get excited about in the ICE department these days. With very passing day, it’s looking more like we’ll be seeing a lot more electric motors — with whatever form of onboard energy storage we can muster. But again, I’m willing to eat my words. And I must say there is an incredibly flurry of bright ideas coming fro New Zealand.