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- From: 01crmeyer@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Craig Meyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: More External-Combustion Info
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.215307.11973@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 02:53:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.125119.11873@bsu-ucs> <1e1eilINNbfb@gap.caltech.edu> <69578@cup.portal.com>
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- > But the steam car is now again on its way. The engine will probably
- > be hermetically sealed,
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- I expose my greenness when I admit that I don't know what "hermetically sealed"
- means. Wuzzit mean?
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- > requiring no lubrication, no makeup water.
- > Its condenser will operate with vacuum.
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- With vacuum? Hmmmm.
- As a side note, blowing air over the condenser would reduce its necessary size.
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- > It will get off from a cold start in thirty seconds.
-
- But is that just too long? With an IC, it's a fraction of that.
- What can make from quiker startup? How about an electric heating element?
- Good insulation? Very low water volume might me the key. Wouldn't a low-volume,
- high-temperature, high-pressure system (with less water to boil)
- start up faster?
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- > The engine itself
- > will be so light that one mechanic can pick it up in his arms.
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- Whoa, now! That would be a very high-temp and high-pressure system, indeed.
- In the GM Steam Car, the boiler was half the engine, and it weighed hundreds of
- pounds. The whole 160hp system wieghed 450 pounds more than the 300hp IC
- engine it replaced. 'Gonna take some work.
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- Need input, need input!
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- CM
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- Craig Meyer 01CRMEYER@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU
- Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humaities.
- Muncie, IN 47306 317-285-7433
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- Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not necessarily
- shared by the Indiana Academy.
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