Leading enginemaker Rolls-Royce is pursuing its own hydrogen engine designs and recently patented a fuel system for a gas turbine engine configured to combust hydrogen fuel. This novel approach to hydrogen power could help solve one of the major problems of using liquid hydrogen as a fuel source, namely its extremely cold temperature. Rolls-Royce’s idea is to use a fuel turbine to heat the hydrogen fuel before it reaches the engine, creating a more stable combustion process.
Patenting an idea that is otherwise obvious is a bad thing in relation to its adoption rate…
Hydrogen combustion is NOT NOVEL what so ever. Space rockets have been pre-heating their fuel since the fucking 1940’s…
Space rockets were only invented in the late 1950s.
Same difference for my point. It’s been around for many decades, thus making it definitionally not novel.
Devil’s in the detail I suppose. We don’t know if anything like this exists for a turbodan engine.
But the approach is just applying old ideas to a different also old idea. That’s by definition not novel.
It’s up to the patent office to reject it then.
We both know the patent office is not capable of doing their job correctly. They give every megacorp every patent they want, because they’re captured.
Just look at Nintendo’s recent patents… There are THOUSANDS of examples of prior art, yet they still got their patents.
