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The Free Piston Engine Is Back In the News
October 2, 2008 | 3 Comments
The free piston engine an offshoot of the “boxer engine” of BMW and Subaru fame is an opposed piston arrangement without connecting rods to a crankshaft. Instead a magnet is part of the connection between the pistons, which are simply connected straight across from each other.
That absence of rotating mass, angular torque use of the [...]
