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Gas

The threshold for relatively inexpensive engines is 19 hp.

Until an open source engine becomes a reality, engine repair is expensive. $50/hr, easily comes to the new engine price for the $300 gas engine. This indicates that small engines are essentially disposable goods.
For the large diesel engine, parts are expensive.
Until the advent of the open source diesel engine, engine costs remain 10x as high as they should be.
Until the OS engine, disposable engines are a suboptimal but acceptable strategy to keep costs of engine systems low.
It is an immediate priority of OSE to develop open source small engines, $11B market (see Market Size) and larger ones are more like 200 billion

500 &U 1000 hour lifetime for small engines - [11]
2000-4000 year life of car engines [12] - 150k miles
Pellet-fired stirling engine buggy - see PDF file
Several links to various engine types including Sterling, Wankel, Steam, etc. [13].

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 =Engine Links=
 #500 &U 1000 hour lifetime for small engines - [https://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-will-a-Briggs-and-Stratton-engine-last#:~:text=If%20the%20engine%20has%20proper,(no%20alcohol%20added)%20fuel]
-#2000-4000 year life of car engines [https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/how-long-should-an-engine-last#:~:text=This%20is%20why%20we%20use,or%20before%20it%20is%20due.]
+#2000-4000 year life of car engines [https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/how-long-should-an-engine-last#:~:text=This%20is%20why%20we%20use,or%20before%20it%20is%20due.] - 150k miles
 #Pellet-fired stirling engine buggy - [http://www.precer.com/Technology.html see PDF file]
 #Several links to various engine types including Sterling, Wankel, Steam, etc. [http://www.green-trust.org/engines.htm].
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