Re:Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public hea...
by jabl on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @11:34AM
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Sure, if money is not an issue, you can do a lot better.
Look at, say, WWII airplane engines. They had 4 sodium cooled valves per cylinders, overhead camshafts, power density around 50 kW/L, pretty darn good bsfc, all this decades before anything like that appeared in civilian cars.
Look at, say, WWII airplane engines. They had 4 sodium cooled valves per cylinders, overhead camshafts, power density around 50 kW/L, pretty darn good bsfc, all this decades before anything like that appeared in civilian cars.