Company says new design will consume 1/2 the fuel and have 1/2 the carbon footprint (or better) compared to today’s engines of equal power, plus it is ready to be manufactured today. Independent, third-party prototypes are presently being set up.

Canadian-based company GrünSpider has designed a new engine, the Saizew Turbine, that is more than 50% energy efficient, putting it on a par with low speed diesel engines.

Designed over the last 20 years by GrünSpider's president Udo Saizew, the Saizew Turbine is claimed to cost half as much and be only half the size of comparable turbines.

GrünSpider says: "It will consume 1/2 the fuel and have 1/2 the carbon footprint (or better) compared to today's engines of equal power, plus it is ready to be manufactured today. Independent, third-party prototypes are presently being set up."

According to the company, compared to today's engines of equal power, the Saizew Turbine will run at 1/3 the speed but have three time the torque and also it will also halve: fuel consumption, carbon footprint, engine size, weight, number of parts and the cost of building and maintaining.