It is a combustion engine, just minus the compression stage. If you actually read the entire article (which at this point, I suspect you have not), it is potentially more efficient than a regular combustion engine. That is the entire point of the thing.

The pressure increase is achieved via detonation. This happens without a compression stage. It then pushes on a turbine generating electricity.

It is clearly described in the article. Like I said, you need to read it more carefully.

Please read that sentence more carefully. It is not saying what you think it is saying. The detonation wave generates pressure without compression.

You need to read the article more carefully. It is expilicitly pointing out that only conventional gas turbines need compression. A detonation wave engine does not.

In a detonation wave, the exhaust gases reaches a very high pressure almost immediately, and you use this effect to drive a turbine. This eliminates the need for a compression stage.

No. IC engines require compression. This does not.

It’s referring to a detonation wave engine that does not require a compression stage.

Don’t forget Waterfox too.

There are definitely non-Tesla fires and there on the order of hundreds of deaths related to them. Many of them happen in China, so we do not hear much about them.

There are hundreds of deaths from battery fires already. Maybe even thousands. In all likelihood, hydrogen is safer than li-ion batteries in a car.

There are hundreds of thousands of gasoline fires every year. It is statistically more dangerous to own and drive a gasoline car.

Your reasoning is nonsensical. Hydrogen cars have not had any dangerous fires or explosions. Gasoline cars have. Basic math suggests that hydrogen cars are safer.

You are simply in denial here. Hydrogen is the safer technology going by the data.

The tanks are made of carbon fiber. Embrittlement isn’t a problem.

Thousands of people die from gasoline fires every year. It is objectively the more dangerous technology.

There are tens of thousands of hydrogen vehicles in consumer hands. Deaths from major fires or explosions is basically zero. It is effectively proven that hydrogen is safer than gasoline.

The world uses 100 million tonnes of hydrogen per year. The death rate is extremely low for how much we use of it. You are much more likely to die from gasoline or electrical fires.

You do not have to make pipes with exposed steel.

This has never happened to a modern hydrogen vehicle. Hydrogen is lighter than air so any leaks do not form a sustained fire risk.

That’s the point. That he’s barely remembered at all.

Wrong. The average person barely knows who he is now. He used to be praised as this great individual.