Roy J. Tellason said the following to Elvis Hargrove on the subject of
ENGINE DESIGN (16 Oct 97  21:20:41)
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 RJT> Elvis Hargrove wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 -> I never saw one come apart,  but I was of the impression that the
 -> reason they weren't used in cars was because they were a whole lot
 -> more expensive than conventional engines.  Is this not the case?
 EH> That's one of the major drawbacks allright.  They'd get a
 EH> lot cheaper if the economy of scale of manufacture ever got
 EH> squared away.  But they have several operational problems
 EH> that make them just a tad impractical.
 RJT> Such as?
Most people have a false mental image of how to accomplish this. They
believe that all it takes is to fit an airplane engine into a car. Just
because they think it can't be done doesn't mean it's so since it is
evidently being done today.
It really scares a lot of people to discover some of what they learned
in the past has now become obsolete. Is it so surprising then why there
is often strong resistance to new ideas that threaten to upset long held
notions? In his time Galileo faced this very same problem. I'm not a
Galileo but the problem is similar: a lot of vcr's blinking 12:00.
 Mike
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