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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Submarine Tech
the biggest problem ive had so far with designing a sub with new tech involved is what the sages on here point out. many of these materials - if even available outside the lab let alone at an affordable price is they haven't been 'road tested'
plenty of theory may have been involved, the technical specs may have been determined in a lab, but no-one has yet had a chance to try them for real. Even NASA will take things into space and try them out before depending on them. It seems that the main reason that acrylic is rated for subs goes back to some testing done by a single person (in the 50s i think) that tried out many viewports of differing thickness at different depths. this sort of thing needs to be done with the new stuff. maybe it will be up to us to do this
cheers
peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Zeke Stone <deafangel@hotmail.com>
Sent: Oct 3, 2003 3:24 PM
To: Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Submarine Tech
I was wondering if anyone is currrently trying to adapt new tech into their
personal sub designs. Such as, carbon nanotube based materials - (currently
somewhat difficult to produce in massive quanties but looks extreamly
promising) and quasiturbine hydrogen engines (not totaly new, but a massive
improvemnt over 4 stroke engines and work great with H/gas. I had talked to
someone over the inet a few weeks back who had designed one where the water
outside the hull was sucked into a tank where hydrogen was striped away and
fed to the engine in a continuous cycle. Seems pretty neat but I have my
doubts, any thoughts?)
ps. my english is good yes? 8)
ryan
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