{"id":640,"date":"2024-08-16T20:14:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T00:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=640"},"modified":"2024-08-16T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T00:14:21","slug":"a-better-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"A better engine."},"content":{"rendered":"It occurred to me that internal combustion engines must burn a lot of energy pushing valve lifters against the pressure of the valve springs. Seems like a lot of effort. I&#8217;d think there would be some kind of solenoid\/actuator that controlled the valves directly, and you could avoid the whole cam and timing belt thing. <br \/>It would seem to make the engine a whole lot simpler, far less moving parts, and since computers control everything in the engine anyway they could more precisely control the positioning of the valves.<br \/>I was wondering why this wasn&#8217;t a thing, and then I found this and realized I had invented the camless piston engine&#8230;<br \/><br \/>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camless_piston_engine<br \/><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me that internal combustion engines must burn a lot of energy pushing valve lifters against the pressure of the valve springs. Seems like a lot of effort. I&#8217;d think there would be some kind of solenoid\/actuator that controlled the valves directly, and you could avoid the whole cam and timing belt thing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deadpelican.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}