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

[Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com>]

--- AndrePevestorf@aol.com wrote:
> 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.. :-))

Still... some chemist must know of another reaction which produces temperatures
in the range of say 100-300 C (212- ~600F) without needing oxygen gas as an
input.  Something that reacts with water maybe?  And hopefully does not produce
anything horrible as a resulting output, and also does not attack the hull or
do something horrible in the presence of salt.

I suppose that if such a reaction were known, using cheap and plentiful
reactants, everyone would using it already!

-L

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