Ceramic Engine (Grid Firm Power Edition) All Ceramic Surfaces Turbine Power Generator Plant (Giant Spinning Catalytic Converter)

Think a ceramic high temperature gas turbine generator power plant that operates 24/7/365

Every surface alumina slurry coated with catalytic metals, so the entire thing a catalytic converter

Feed it coal gas, natural gas, cow farts, used cooking oil, dump or sour gas, sewer gas, propane, butane, DME, ethanol, methanol, gasoline, used motor oil, recycled plastic powder, crop waste powder, coal dust, heavy bunker oil, heating oil, jet fuel, kerosine, biodiesel, biofuel, anything flammable as a powder fuel or liquid fuel or gas fuel, make it truly omni fuel or fuel agnostic, it will operate on any mix of anything flammable, some of the electrical power generated runs a brushless fan shredder that force blows air into the intake stages and fuel into the combustor, with a giant stationary efficient recuperator driving thermal efficiency into the 70% range, while all those catalytic surfaces slash emissions 99% 

Automakers have famously chased the idea of a ceramic passenger car engine, but temperature swings in the real world, from winter blizzards to the hottest summer conditions, along with cars sitting unused 20+ hours per day, thus a new cold start, from cold to hot, propagating cracks in even zirconia enhance alumina super ceramics or ultra ceramics. 

Metals are far more forging in piston engine designs, though we see silicon rings sealing pistons in F1 engines, so there is a novel use of a non-metallic element, in a similar vein beryllium can be used to make thermo-isotropic parts that expand uniformly as they heat, and alloys of aluminum lithium titanium copper and nickel produce low mass extremely heat corrosion resistant special novel alloys, even wrapping the exhaust pipe of an engine from the header to the catalytic converter can enhance cold start light up speed, noting that cold-start emissions are 90% of the toxic fumes emitted by a moder ICE gasoline fueled automobile, with emissions particularly foul during the first 90 seconds after a cold start. 

Peak efficiency for a combustion engine with a turbo charger and thermal recuperator can approach 70% at converting fuel energy to propulsion at varying speeds. Yet most automobile engines, 4-cylinder, fuel injected, aluminum alloy block and head, liquid cooled, emissions controlled, struggle to move beyond 42% thermal efficiencies, and really only Toyota Hybrid Atkinson cycles get into the 40% range, most automobiles with a gasoline fuel engine have an engine of only 20-30% thermal efficiency at converting gasolines chemical energy into propulsion of the vehicle at varying speeds in the real world. 

Waxing on Toyota 'Made in Japan' PRIME plug-in hybrid models, injecting grid power to the tune of 4-8 kWh to help the engine + MG1 & MG2 make it move the vehicle at various speeds, netting 70 mpg out of a Rav4 Prime incredibly.