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nazgulnarsil on Aug 5, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports

rotary engines are pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BCgl2uumlI

each time each piston reverses direction you're losing energy in a standard piston engine.

jacquesm on Aug 5, 2009 [–]

For some reason my brain showed me the picture of a star piston engine when you said 'rotary', my bad :)

We call those 'Wankel' engines here.

Pretty cool stuff.

Beautful animation by the way!

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