{"id":535,"date":"2014-10-03T16:59:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2014-10-03T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T16:59:03","slug":"todays-brainwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/03\/todays-brainwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Brainwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was reading an article about a new car that has an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atkinson_cycle\">atkinson cycle<\/a> engine. NASA invented this thing called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_Stirling_radioisotope_generator\">Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator<\/a> to be a more efficient  way to power deep space probes. As I was reading about this engine cycle, it occured to me: if your end goal is electric power, why not dispense with the entire crankcase and let the pistons drive a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linear_alternator\">linear alternator<\/a> directly a la the ASRG. Since at least 10 other people have previously conceived of every idea you ever will, it turns out this is a thing: the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free-piston_engine\">free-piston engine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was reading an article about a new car that has an atkinson cycle engine. NASA invented this thing called the Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator to be a more efficient way to power deep space probes. As I was reading about this engine cycle, it occured to me: if your end goal is electric power, why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}