Rotary diesels

The topic of Rotary power for marine applications has come a number times on the boards, so if somebody else has already posted a link to this, I appologise. However, I thought this rather interesting - particularly the rotary diesel outboard (see under press release)....

http://www.rotarypowerinternational.com

 

Will,

I took the time to read this whole site and together with a search on rotary power a few days ago I think this baby is over-patented and undervalued.

From what I saw on the net earlier, it was (I think) volkwagen, mercury, mercedes, ford, audi and many more have/had chares/stocks in this indeed most promising little engine.

Its 50 years ago when Felix Wankel made its first attempts into a rotary engine and it is sort of hard to believe now to hear that after investments over $ 200.000.000 to get to a troublefree engine it now hangs on $ 600.000 extra investment, subsidy, or government / navy orders to get it realised? I did drove a RX7 sportcar once (and was very impressed) but these cars (and rotary engines) are available everywhere. Gas, diesel and hydrogen, maybe I’m talking premature here but whats the problem marinising them?

Lets hope we soon see the spirit of Norway running these (bigger) engines or have diesel rotary outboards in the shop in Norway, Canada and the rest of the world by autum 2003. I would have liked more tech talk and pics, specs etc. instead of talk and speculation. I don’t know…lets hope to see the real thing soon.

http://www.freedom-motors.com/
http://www.rotarymarine.com/
http://www.monito.com/wankel/marine.html#RPMarineInc

yipster

 

found a active rotary forum site http://www.ausrotary.com/ and more rotary news

This year, the Grand-Am sanctioning body, outlawed all Rotary Engine Powered Race cars at the Daytona Rolex 24 Hour Race. We take this as another one of those misguided and ignorant decisions, by rules makers and sanctioning bodies that do not and care not to understand the Rotary power plant.

also:

Mazda Motor Corporation today commenced production of its newly developed RENESIS* rotary engine at its Ujina plant. The RENESIS is a new-generation rotary engine employing twin rotors, each with a displacement of 654cc. The engine was designed especially to power the all-new four-door, four-seater Mazda RX-8 sports car, due to hit showrooms this April.

so i'll guess we are going to see more still...
yipster
http://atkinsrotary.com/Klem.htm