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Originally Posted by EricG
Yes I do. What possible reason could the auto industry have for suppressing this technology for decades. And by the auto industry I mean hundreds or thousands of independent manufacturers, private, academic and government research groups, etc. located all over the world.
Why would they conceal this? It would be an enormous competitive advantage -
Sorry, progress in Internal Combustion engine technology just doesn't scale that way - it's a very mature technology. See if Moore's Law still holds 100 years from now.
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This is true. Internal combustion technology is about maximizing combustion, thermal and mechanical efficiency. Given the constraints in materials and process brought about by reasonable production costs, we have the modern mass-produced combustion engine.
Silicon technology is dependent on the limits of process technology and atomic physics. Some of the limits of silicon Integrated Circuit (IC) technology are being reached today. It's why we're not seeing CPU clock speeds advance as they did through the 80's and 90's: it's just too difficult to get all parts of a chip to march in lock step when the number of transistors in a chip reaches a certain level. However, "Moore's law" is still holding close to true as the number of transistors on a single die continues to increase.
Sorry for the slight hijack. I love computers
