TOP 10 STRANGEST Engines

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10. Hüttlin-Kugelmotor-Hybrid

9. V8 Paper Model Engine

8. Free Piston Engine

7. OPOC Engine

6. Duke Axial

5. Hybrid Sabre Engine

4. Bacterial Spore Engine

3. Hybrid Sterling

2. EM Space Drive
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1. Freevalve Camless Engine

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"Escape From Area 51"
By K1Woods

[goose]

Awesome! A "cool engines" video where the thumbnail is actually in the video!

[demguiz]

Very well done. Your narrative was concise and informative, the background music was just that, background as it should be. Not some overwhelming headbanging. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank yo.

[mspeir]

I came here to see the spherical engine in the thumbnail. I was totally expecting clickbait and the need to dredge the comments to find it. Thanks for not doing that!

[RWBHere]

2:20 - The Napier Deltic is the big grandfather of this engine. It has 36 pistons in 18 cylinders, arranged in a delta configuration of 6 banks, is a two-stroke Diesel engine, and develops up to about 2, 500 horsepower. The 'Baby Deltic' has half the number of banks. The Deltic was developed from a 1930's Junkers Jumo 204 design under license. The engines were variously used in aircraft, military boats, railway locomotives, and even in a New York Fire Service water pump. They were sometimes used in pairs; 72 pistons in 36 cylinders. So the basic design of the engine in the video is at least 85 years old.

[MrJimmy]

The Duke engine is an adaptation of a fairly common air conditioning compressor. I often wondered if it could be adapted to become an internal combustion engine. Cool that someone did it.

[aliciashepherd]

wow good video, usually these videos are just stuff I have seen a hundred times or more but the Columbia uni engine is truely something of a new one on me and a rather interesting take on a hydro power. however the solenoid engine has been done a number of times over the years with little information going public due to the expected short comings of reliability but well done, great content

[gabrielsabode]

The sabre engine is already made. its not used in any aircraft or spacecraft yet, it works. VERY well.

[ngrinshift]

The "Opec" engine seems to be the most practical option and even the "next" logical evolutionary step in the well known "boxer" engine. All, aside from the "bacterial" engine, seem to have probable applications in the future if properly refined. In my humble opinion, magnetics will play a big part in future powertrains both on a planet and in space.

[dreambound.]

I'm sure we will see a lot more from Koenigsegg in the future. They're a genius company.
As always, good video ;)

[Devo]

#6 the Duke axial reminds me of a AC compressor in a car if you ever take my part that kind of look the same

[TheSmreeder]

The OPOC EM100 engine is just 1/3 of the Delta engine that still runs trains in England and was a spoil of war designed by the Germans in WW2 and reverse engineered by the Brittish to use in their long haul transit system....Many blessings, SMR

[Ulrich_von_Jungingen]

The freevalve camless sounds like a good way for a piston to smack a valve. At least with a standard engine, this is quite unlikely as unless a timing belt or chain slips or breaks or a valve collet comes off.


Also, #7 the opposed piston engine was first built by Jumo in WW2 as a diesel plane, then modified by the British to make the Deltic post war. It is an old design, but really an untapped idea I believe.

[spidermcgavenport]

Relay engine's are getting better, I'd like to see more push towards renewable biofuel especially for whole house heating.

[thundercactus]

The EM drive was finally proven to not work as advertised by a lab in Germany. It was tested on a torsion balance in the usual two directions, and found to emit micro-thrust. But then they rotated it 90 degrees and found abnormal thrust. They turned the EM drive off and only put power to the electronics and found it was generating the same thrust. Concluding that it was an interaction between the twisted pair wiring and the Earth's magnetic field.
And it's a REALLY good thing it doesn't work, because reactionless drive systems are the stuff of science fiction nightmares.

[spoonnz]

The OPOC EM100 isin't a new idea. There have been countless opposed piston engines, Like the Junkers Jumo 205 and the Napier deltic engine, and Commer ts3 engine. They have been used commercially of years in cars, trucks and even airplanes.

[djaydeved]

3:25
problem is is the fact that stirling engines have used this for a long time aswell
they arnt inviting a new engine, just revisiting and updating a existing system

[andrewmandrona]

yay no clickbait!

However I will say that the EM drive doesn't have much promise. Although it does produce thrust, most of the more reliable tests show that it produces thrust in accordance with Einstein's E = mC^2.
In other words, energy has mass, so this doesn't violate any laws. The engine produces less thrust than a flashlight though, so we probably won't see it working... ever. Moreover, there is this neat saying that goes "friends don't let friend use reactionless drives"

[gordonstull]

Working on a reciprocating permanent magnet motor-generator, using superconducting wire and combustion of methane gas. Compressing the magnetic field of a neodymium magnet is a way to "momentarily" store energy from the combustion of methane gas, in that balancing motion & mass is like putting a spring between two freight trains moving head on, even when both trains are moving at exactly at the same rate and have exactly the same mass the trains will still be going through that force that pushes & bends. Balancing the center-points & controlling vibration & lost motion seems to be the key ingredient concerning the top 10 strangest engines, I love this video and would like to see more like this!

[krzysztofikrzysztof]

"You see those experimental engines? They’ve got curved pistons. Curved. Pistons." - Whiterun Guard, probably

[HomeGuitarMods]

Thank you for actually showing the engine thats in the thumbnail, really cool!