The LIM Logic

In the transportation industry, as in most other industries, the old proven ways frequently have become the ways of the past. Knowing this, car and truck makers are involved in highly visible efforts to find new means of propelling family vehicles. Even though there may someday be value from this expensive research, we at LIM believe the next several decades will not see fuel cell technology good enough to bring about the end of internal combustion. At LIM, we instead see potential for vast improvement in the mechanical utilization of the internal combustion process.

Over the coming twenty years, fuel cells will remain in the future, and petroleum will become more expensive. LIM type engines will provide the power for less fuel.

When steam was novel in the early nineteenth century, the waves were ruled by clipper ships, which would never, it was generally believed, be replaced by dirty and short ranged steamboats. In the 1920s, humans traveling across the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans almost always went in steam ships, but never, except for a few adventurers, in airplanes. By the end of the 1920s, though, mail was routinely sent in aircraft. In the 1930s, flying boats, aircraft which could land on water, served dozens of the world's ports, and saved weeks of travel time for the well to do.

Following the cataclysmic changes wrought by World War II, flying boats were supplanted by aircraft with retractable wheels, and by the end of the 1950s travel across the oceans in steam powered surface vessels was more often for the spending of leisure time than for efficient transportation.

If all of this seems obvious, please consider how Boeing developed the 707, the world's first successful intercontinental jet passenger transport. In the early 1950s, when the brave decision to proceed in this costly endeavor was undertaken, Boeing couldn't find any qualified customers. The airlines, a "mature" industry, and the US Air Force, had no desire to consider purchasing a jet powered long range transport.

Through the 1950s, having not identified any willing customer for its innovative new product, Boeing risked a quarter of its net worth to develop the unpopular novelty, because at that time, at Boeing, vision was real, they were confident of their competence, and they KNEW that a far better product would find its market.

At LIM Technology, we've been told that the transportation industry is mature, and that through a thick entanglement of joint ventures, the existing order of things is nearly unchangeable. With all due respect to the size and past success of the large established organizations who produce the world's cars, trucks and busses, we don't think any industry is impervious to the improvement of value of its products.

As the dinosaurs proved, the world requires that we adapt or perish.

On this website, we describe how conventional engines work, and the value of the LIM differences. These differences are so valuable that we are confident in the eventual supremacy in the market place of our highly refined, yet incredibly simple system.

Essentially, we found a new mechanical arrangement for engines using known physics and chemistry, which, when compared to conventional four-stroke engines, would have the same power and better fuel economy by eliminating parts, mass, and friction and reducing capital cost. This will obviously save weight and money for users and manufacturers.

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