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TheFLY · 09-08-2003, 09:07 PM

Just seems like a cool field. Something that I've always been interested in but never could find anyone that was actually serious about it... I looked into the engineering program here at the university but they don't even build anything these days -- it's all book work... They have the students working on top-secret military weapons, and they have a race car program, but they get the engines ready-made from Honda... I've also looked into learning to do milling/CNC stuff it seems like a very obscure thing to do now... I'd just be curious to know what the latest advancements are now with engine designs...

I was watching 60-minutes I think and they had some talk about a heat-transfer engine that would also purify water -- that was pretty cool but didn't impress me very much... I heard that there wasn't much money spend on new engine types because to automotive industry has too much money already invested into the upkeep of these existing engines... re-training all the mechanics, etc... it's almost as if we are stuck in the past because people are happy to keep spending money maintaining old, shitty designs...

09-08-2003, 09:07 PM
TheFLY So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: http://www.thefly.net/ --- Quit your job and live off steady traffic. Posts: 11,856	Does anyone here build engines? Just seems like a cool field. Something that I've always been interested in but never could find anyone that was actually serious about it... I looked into the engineering program here at the university but they don't even build anything these days -- it's all book work... They have the students working on top-secret military weapons, and they have a race car program, but they get the engines ready-made from Honda... I've also looked into learning to do milling/CNC stuff it seems like a very obscure thing to do now... I'd just be curious to know what the latest advancements are now with engine designs... I was watching 60-minutes I think and they had some talk about a heat-transfer engine that would also purify water -- that was pretty cool but didn't impress me very much... I heard that there wasn't much money spend on new engine types because to automotive industry has too much money already invested into the upkeep of these existing engines... re-training all the mechanics, etc... it's almost as if we are stuck in the past because people are happy to keep spending money maintaining old, shitty designs...