OK, everyone. All engineers here now agree with the above feedback regarding no efficiency losses related to a piston's changing inertia in conventional reciprocating engines. Thank you for your input. But as you'll see, a piston that does not reciprocate is not a "self contradiction"...
You guys aren't half bad.
Nonetheless, we continue our development.
I am posting a video diagram of our engine on the internet for the curious (too large to post here). Standby. It won't be long
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Moving any mass from a static state to a kinetic state requires an input of energy. Stopping that mass requires an equivalent amount of energy (ignoring all losses such as friction).
In a reciprocating engine, the energy required to start the piston moving from "top dead...
We are developing an engine with pistons and cylinders that do not reciprocate... in other words the inertia of the pistons is constant at a given engine speed. More on that latter if you wish.
We are looking for a method to calculate the efficiency losses in a conventional internal...