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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] My PSUB Explorer
Sounds like a Venturi tube.
--- Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com> wrote:
> I only know it by that. It is/was an experimental
> drive for a submarine
> intended for speed, I believe. Take a submarine and
> put torpedo tubes
> running horizontal along the bottom. Except they
> aren't torp's, they go
> to the prop, which is inside the tubes. Wider at
> the front and narrower
> at the back, I believe. Anyhow, it uses the same
> principle used by my
> industry- mining. Look for information on suction
> dredging. Jeene
> Engineering makes those kinds of dredges. You have
> a little bit of high
> pressure water coming in at an angle, and it creates
> a suction brining
> in a lot more water through the bigger tube. I'll
> have to sketch out
> the thing I saw and get it scanned. Was many years
> back. Don't even
> remember who I saw had it or where. But that was
> the name, I believe.
> Reportedly could increase speed with no noticeable
> increase in power
> consumption.
> Carl
>
>
> Michael B Holt wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:56:43 -0600 Coalbunny
> <coalbunny@vcn.com> writes:
> > >Why bother with props? What's wrong with using
> "cavitated water
> > >jets"?
> >
> > Or, along the same line (sort of), why not try
> shrouding the props with
> > thin plexiglass?
> >
> > What's a cavitated water jet? Do I know it by
> another name?
> >
> > Mike H.
> >
> >
>
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