Mission

Mission: The Economist in 1986 wrote about our work in terms of the lean-burn engine, the Holy Grail of car engineers. “By using more air to burn less fuel, it promises more miles per gallon and less pollution”. In 2000, we succeeded in developing an efficient lean burn engine, using a low-cost, 2-valve engine. It has the diesel’s 30% higher efficiency and power, and a lean burn capability of 30 to 1 air-fuel ratio (AFR), given the high energy of its ignition, i.e. the CEI Ignition. The ignition is backed by work performed over ten years and by patents issued between 1996 and 2007. The ignition coil was perfected in 2008-2009, and was shown to deliver 5 times the energy for an unheard of energy-density of 1.25mj/gm.

In 2009, a major breakthrough was made in perfecting the lean burn engine, called the 2-Stroke Inverted Cross-Scavenged. In January, 2009, a U.S. patent was filed, representing the completion of the engine. The engine was given the name Holy Grail Lean Burn Engine. It represents breakthroughs in lean burn engine design and 2-stroke engines. It is the only two-stroke engine with two overhead valves, no ports in the engine block and without any oil problems. It avoids the oil-leak problem that the 4-stroke engine has at very high AFR, and it has an electric supercharger at the intake. It uses two halo-disc plugs with high energy coils, a combustion chamber similar to Michael May’s, and an electronic fuel injector first used by the Ford PROCO.

It has not been appreciated before that the two-stroke can operate as a true Miller Cycle under all conditions, and that with the proper scavenging and compression/expansion it can use a full air-charge to the cylinder despite the late intake closing. The engine uses an expansion ratio (ER) of 18 to 1 and a compression ratio (CR) of 10.5 to 1. By displacing the exhaust gases with fresh intake air, the process takes place at normal temperature and pressure, i.e. at NTP. Note that since the ER is high, there is no need to consider the complexity and expense of variable ER/CR. The engine can be viewed as a high efficiency engine one step advanced from the Big Bore Four, i.e. a high efficiency Big Bore Two.

The engine power can be controlled by a Speed-Density map, Density being MAP in a standard engine, and in the present case is proportional to the degree of Stratification, given that MAP ≈ 1. The engine has only three operating conditions: cold-start, lean burn operation, and WOT (14.7 AFR with a 3-way catalyst).

The Holy Grail Lean Burn Engine has high power despite its small size, i.e. 200 HP in a two-cylinder, 1 Liter, mildly super-charged engine and the highest efficiency >55%. It can do away with the supposed advantages of EVs. It brings truth to the statement that it is better to burn fuel in an efficient engine to directly move the car instead of burning it in a large power-plant and have to the deal with coal ash, and with the problems of having to convert its output to electricity and convert it back again to use in a hybrid and EV. In addition, the EVs have an outrageous price: $43,000 for the GM Volt and $89,000 for Al Gore’s EV, and have driving range problems, battery problems and require cancer causing rare-earth-metals which currently come mainly from China. The light-weight, highly efficient, 2-cylinder, 2-Stroke ICS can be built with a suitable chassis for a mere $10,000 in the US, and less in other parts of the world.

Smart people should be able to go through simple algebraic equations to understand the basic principals of operation of the “perfect” engine, the Holy Grail Lean Burn Engine. They should also be able to ascertain why global warming can initially produce temperatures extremes, remembering that the heat of fusion of ice is 80 calories/gm, and that global warming can initially produce large amounts of free ice, i.e. icebergs.

Michael Archimedes Ward, Ph.D., Applied Physics, Harvard University

32 Prentiss Rd, Arlington, MA 02476

e-mail: Michael_A.V._Ward@post.harvard.edu

Mission

Lean Burn Lives

My Vision: On May 23, 1983, the “Adjunct Purpose” was born (see below). Twenty five years later I came to understand its true meaning. Suffering & Love allows us to see through the eyes of God.

MY VISION: THE ADJUNCT PUROSE

May 23, 1983 and Dec. 31, 2009

“A new idea can take you to the top faster than anything else. But people expect too much of an idea. They want an idea that is not only great, but one that everyone else thinks is great too. There are no such ideas!” Ries and Trout. “Positioning, the Battle for your Mind.”

PREAMBLE TO DECLARATION

Over the past few years, we have been engaged in applying our pioneer technologies to develop and bring into general world-wide use, an advanced, highly fuel efficient, clean, simple, and inexpensive internal combustion engine; the Lean Burn Engine, also known today, 25 years later, as the Holy Grail Lean Burn Engine.

As we performed this work, and overcame the numerous obstacles we encountered, we began to see the vital role that our personal values and company ethics played in the success of this endeavor. Yet we have never stated these personal and organizational values.

We now realize that to not assert these values is to withhold the principles and commitments on which they are based. Only by stating our values do we begin to fully live up to them, and to establish them as part of our and everyone else’s reality.

Yet to formally present these values is to take a risk, the risk of being too unconventional and of presenting the unusual.

“To ride the ‘idea horse’, you must be willing to expose yourself to ridicule and controversy and be willing to go against the tide. You can’t be first with a new idea or concept, unless you are willing to stick your neck out, and take a lot of abuse”. Ries & Trout, Positioning, the Battle for your Mind.

Clearly, few will view our formal presentation of our values as a worthwhile “new idea” or contribution to our overall effort. And yet, our assertion of there values is an indispensable to our success, as are our world-wide patents and our know-how.

DECLARATION

We – the builders of the Holy Grail Lean Burn Engine – have determined to use this occasion, to declare our Stand, our Principles and our Vision. And by this declaration to bring to this endeavor, men of science and of finance, with the vision and the courage, to also so dedicate themselves. That together, being guided by these values, we will build the great enterprise we have so long labored for, and build the Holy Grail Lean Burn Engine that was revealed to us.

That We will base this enterprise on openness and commitment, with the purpose of developing technologies and new products, not just to their point of sufficiency – but to their natural conclusion, where they will provide the greatest benefits, both to their implementers, and to their users.

That We will nourish and direct this enterprise to create new meaning and to renew old values, of what is honorable and acceptable, in the pursuit and conduct of business enterprise.

That objectivity and patience, simplicity and subtlety, and courage and vision shall guide us in this new direction.

That We will govern and direct this enterprise to make known its great accomplishments, not as the works of great men, but as the achievements of committed and determined individuals: to thus serve as an example, for those who have abandoned their purpose and their power – to recover their strength and their courage.

And We will accomplish these things out of the great power of the technologies which we have created – and create even here today; being further guided at all times, to respect the human dignity of those who support us – and those who oppose us.

POST DECLARATION (2010)

The world is following the trend of dumbing-it-down, and not doing the obvious to solve its problems. The main problem that President Obama has, contrary to general opinion, is getting Americans re-educated to be able to think for themselves. The world is in a Stupor. As American standards for independent thinking and creativity go, so the world’s standards go. Let us hope that Obama’s education goals succeed.