worlds smallest petrol engine fits on the end of a finger tip

[weld_it]

WoW......SCIENTISTS have built the smallest petrol engine, The mini-motor can run for two years on a single squirt of lighter fuel

http://maximumtorque.blogspot.com/2009/05/smallest-petrol-engine.html

 

[rtbcomp]

Reminds back in the early 1970's a microcomputer chip was announced that had a nuclear reactor on board. It all sounded very plausible, even though coolant was passsed through the pins normally used for power.

After reading one of the control signal was labelled EIEIO I looked at the date of the article - yes April 1st!

 

[Justme]

Wow & only 3 more years till its ready (that links fro 1/5/09).

 

[brightspark]

dont get excited. we invent the stuff then sell the technology our own companys banks and goverment are 2 short sighted to invest long term and produce the goods

 

[KennyC]

Cool, I'm looking forward to having a V8 powered watch

 

[knoba]

The image just doesn't look right...

They've done a wankel engine too (doesn't look right either)...

http://www.eng.bham.ac.uk/mechanical/documents/jiang-microengines.pdf

v8 watch does sound cool, though! I wouldn't care if it told the time, or not

 

[PTvor]

I miss Tomorrow's World. Raymond Baxster would have had a field day with this.

Whatever happened to fuel cells?