Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: AIP [air independant propulsion]

[AndrePevestorf@aol.com]

In a message dated Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:51:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- AndrePevestorf@aol.com wrote:
> > perhaps You can coppy some good ideas from the design of smelting-furnance
> > and nuclear reactors...
> > 
> > maybe itīs possible to use tubes made from pottery and cool them direct with
> > water to get steam...
> > If you use a continuous process (press the thermite to long sticks e.g.) you
> > have no trouble to hold the necessary temperature to ignite the thermite...
> 
> Steam generators only get about 30% of the energy input converted to
> electricity.  There are losses in creating steam, losses in spinning the
> turbine, losses in spinning the coil through the magnets, and losses in the
> form of post-turbine condensation still holding heat.  Also lots of moving
> parts to break.  Some loss too in any storage battery.
> 
> If you could drive a prop directly from the turbine, or better yet vent the
> steam directly as a jet-drive, it would be much more efficient.
> 
> I don't know how you'd regulate the reaction, though.
> 
> -L
honestly speaking... no idea!
maybe itīs possible to use the gravity...somebody should find out if a pressed-thermit-stick can burn from the bottom to the top... 
the systems I know (for welding railways e.g.) ignite on the top. 
If the hot material allways drop down than it might be possible to control the reaktion by control the lead of the sticks from the side...similar as in a light-arc lamp...
(hope you understand my terrible english...)
never the less I agree that the output of the whole system will be not very good...except you are able to make power direct by the reaction.. :-))

-A.