It does ok by itself. Yanmar 44hp.
Posted on 10/28/2015 1:40:54 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
Not too top-heavy, huh?
What? It won’t fit in your garage, well, I guess you will just have to parallel park the thing in front of your cottage!
Can you expound on what part of that qualifies it as an “engine”?
Well, the engine is actually the turbine that expands the steam to produce power. The boiler burns the fuel and generates the high pressure working fluid — akin to combustion of fuel and air in the ICE cylinder. The expansion in the Rankine cycle is done in a separate machine (the turbine) while in the Diesel cycle the combustion and expansion are in the same location.
Right. So it’s a bit unfair to equate it with that ship diesel that can drive a screw. Amazing machines, both, in any case!
No... the honda would sink.
Would make a nifty Trojan horse/ship
It does ok by itself. Yanmar 44hp.
There are more “salts” than common table salt which contains sodium as a component. Mostly research reactors used “metallic” sodium as the primary loop coolant-—also found in hollow exhaust valves for some engines-—valued for enhanced heat conduction.
The salt in molten salt reactors is often a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride with a uranium compound dissolved as the fuel component.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they included the feature of disconnecting the running gear of one cylinder, which allows the engine to continue running with the remaining good cylinders.
If we would make our own crap again these things would be unnecessary. Maybe we could turn the employment situation around.
No reason for them to do so. Locomotives use diesel-electric in order to supply power to the steerable wheel trucks without a complicated mechanical transmission. They have a diesel motor and electric generator in the body of the locomotive, with a traction motor in each wheel truck.
So a molten sodium thorium reactor wouldn’t be a significant fire safety issue within the engine compartment of an ocean going vessel?
What could go wrong?
www.webelements.com/sodium/chemistry.html
Sodium metal reacts rapidly with water to form a colourless solution of sodium ... the sodium metal may well become so hot that it catches fire and burns intensely.
Not a question of need.
It's a question of want, and me want.
My dad has that same motor on his 47-foot sailboat!
All that “pollution” and the world till hasn’t cracked in half. Go figure. Seems liberals yell like Chicken Little.
“which means the companies that operate these ships have a hard time recovering the cost of building them.”
Actually, the reverse is true. Due to the economy of their scale they can transport cargo cheaper than the smaller ships so they get booked first. These ships are the first to have a full load.
(They didn't really even worry about terrorists using the Savannah for nefarious purposes back then. AFAIK, only the Russians use nuclear power in any capacity for civilian ships, and I believe it's exclusively with icebreakers.)
It was built in Korea.
It's not bringing crap to us. It's bringing crap back and forth between China and Europe.
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