Hyper-Efficient Invention rotary engine from a given small business Huge DARPA contract

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Hyper-Efficient Invention rotary engine from a given small business Huge DARPA contract -

LiquidPiston Inc. is a company based in Bloomfield, CT, built by the father-son team Nikolay and Alec Shkolnik. One of their products is a hyper-efficient rotary engine technology, LiquidPiston, offering to be compact because it can fit in a backpack, powerful, quiet, low vibration and multi-fuel combustion engines capable that are scalable to 1HP to over 1,000 HP.

Product landed the company a contract worth millions Agency (DARPA) US Defense Advanced Research Projects. Engine technology can be used for military purposes such as drones in weapons (UAVs), soldiers and generators that produce 3kW of robotic electric power.

A typical 3kW gasoline generator is normally found on construction sites or can be used during a power failure. It weighs about 140 pounds and measures about 3 feet long, 2 feet high and 2 feet wide. Such generators are used in remote areas by the military to generate power, however, they are huge. LiquidPiston, on the other hand, can produce the same amount of energy, but it weighs about 30 pounds when the engine itself weighs about 8 pounds and relatively small size such that it can be formed inside of a backpack. When used in unmanned aerial vehicles, it can be easily integrated inside the shell of the fuselage.

In addition to the DARPA project, LiquidPiston also plans to use the products for the power tool usage of the house such as lawn mowers, chain saws and trimmers. The products will be available in Home Depot and Lowe in the next two to three years as mentioned by Alex Shkolnik.

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