Comments on: Engines and Fireflies http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/ Hacker, Engineer, Dancer, Gentleman Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bob robbuts http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-10810 bob robbuts Sun, 20 May 2007 16:25:06 +0000 http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/#comment-10810 <p>so the steam cycle generates enough power to take care of it's own pumping losses?</p> so the steam cycle generates enough power to take care of it’s own pumping losses?

]]> By: Terrill Dent http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-5708 Terrill Dent Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:57:18 +0000 http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/#comment-5708 <p>That rotary engine is awesome! I'm thoroughly impressed, and have revisited this article a few times now.</p> <p>Widespread SVG adoption is high on my wish list. One day it will be, and I can't wait. So many things would be possible, it hurts my head just thinking about it all.</p> That rotary engine is awesome! I’m thoroughly impressed, and have revisited this article a few times now.

Widespread SVG adoption is high on my wish list. One day it will be, and I can’t wait. So many things would be possible, it hurts my head just thinking about it all.

]]> By: Mike Purvis http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-4896 Mike Purvis Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:14:32 +0000 http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/#comment-4896 <p>I'm not aware that anyone has patented this exact design; Google doesn't seem to turn up <a href="http://www.google.com/patents?q=rotary+engine+six-stroke+OR+6-stroke" rel="nofollow">anything quite like it</a>. On the other hand, I have some serious doubts about how you could seal it; plus, you'd need to build casing out of some metal that absorbs very little heat, and the rotor out of one that absorbed as much as possible, yet still have neither deform by any significant amount.</p> <p>Between the impossibility of trying to engineer it, and the fact that gasoline engines are passé anyways, if Mazda somehow makes a million dollars off this, I'll chalk it up to experience. :)</p> <p>Either way, I think it's a nifty idea worth sharing.</p> I’m not aware that anyone has patented this exact design; Google doesn’t seem to turn up anything quite like it. On the other hand, I have some serious doubts about how you could seal it; plus, you’d need to build casing out of some metal that absorbs very little heat, and the rotor out of one that absorbed as much as possible, yet still have neither deform by any significant amount.

Between the impossibility of trying to engineer it, and the fact that gasoline engines are passé anyways, if Mazda somehow makes a million dollars off this, I’ll chalk it up to experience. :)

Either way, I think it’s a nifty idea worth sharing.

]]> By: Ryan Gariepy http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/comment-page-1/#comment-4894 Ryan Gariepy Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:27:11 +0000 http://uwmike.com/articles/2007/01/08/javascript-visualization/#comment-4894 <p>I take it there's already a patent on the six stroke rotary engine, then? (Otherwise, I think this counts as public disclosure)</p> I take it there’s already a patent on the six stroke rotary engine, then? (Otherwise, I think this counts as public disclosure)

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