05-30-2006, 09:27 PM
Quote:I don't see steam as any savoir for our energy problems in this day and age. We got away from it for a reason - it would be a step backwards to start using it again for any large-scale applications (such as cars). A giant tank filled with 1,000 PSI (arbitrary numbers, mind you, for example's sake) of boiling hot steam is a very dangrous thing. Imagine what would happen in a car-crash - instant explosion of metal and steam. You'd be a moving bomb should anything go wrong. Just not a smart idea.Imagine two cars doing about 35 in a T-bone type collision . . . with 1200psi steam in a system that just got craked. (FWIW, int eht 1960's the Navy went to 600 psi steam from 1200 psi steam in many ships: with turbines taller than you are.)
Scalded, and burned by boiling water . . . ouch, and permanent burn damage to tissue, blinding, etc.
*shudders*
Occhi
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In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete