Posted on 04/10/2023 10:56:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
I don’t know why you’re writing this to me as if it weren’t in line with what I wrote, namely that technically nuclear is a form of steam propulsion. I was just chuckling at the way AnalogReigns could be read as proposing nuclear reactors in cars.
Yes. If the advance lever was set too far, the engine would kick back. It came to be referred to as a “Ford Fracture.”
We had a car in the 60’s that had a hand crank. And yes, you could fracture your arm quite easily.
Steam cars were in use for a few decades, kiddo. Did they have a serious problem with the boilers exploding?
Yeah sport, they did. But the main problem is the firebox and with steam lines letting go. Jay Leno was badly burned by a steam car just last year. And they used steam in locomotives and on ships. Live steam is not a mass market product you feeble minded simp.
But you go on, pretending steam cars are a safe idea. Doesn’t bother me at all. And the minute gasoline was available, everyone fled to it and away from steam.
And people who say they will not read a response have feeble minds. You know your position is moronic. AMF.
Ever seen a boiler explode?
Doesn’t take much to figure out why they disappeared.
All heat engines are subject to the Carnot cycle.
Here is a 14 cylinder ICE that produces 109,000 horsepower.
What is your point?
That’s a detail I never heard about till now. That crank would suddenly go whirling around very quickly.
The movie looks like a Harold Lloyd film I saw years ago.
Took you that long to search the internet for that? I never even looked.
I suspect it is a MAN diesel or similar, they make them from about 24 to 36 inch bore, or so, and strokes from 4ft to 8ft. Rpms at around 90 to 120 or so. THOSE ARE ENGINES. not some little wash machine engine in vehicles these days.
I studied in Marine Diesel Engineering school in the early 70s. I got my degree from that Tech School and went on to MTU for my associates degree in engineering.
Neither are offered any longer in either school (Tech Offers Engineering but it is exclusively a four year study).
Not one of us in my class went on to the Ore Boats on the great lakes or the salties on the oceans. If any one of us had, good chance that one would have been on the Fitz when it went down.
So some people have got a ways to go to catch up. That includes the dumb kids that are now coming out of schools with absolutely no understanding of what makes engines tick.
Speaking of cranking why don’t they make a car that runs on fentynal since there seems to be plenty of it around.
I've seen Norfolk & Southern's steam engines that they occasionally
run around Virginia though - but that was 3 decades ago.
Ever take a look at the Titanics engines?
Triple expansion and the final exhaust went to a low pressure steam turbine at around 12 PSI and around 180 degrees...If I remember right.
All the steam ship were converted to oil and as far as I know..every one of the liberty ships were powered by triple expansion steam engines.
Steam powers the world. It just isnt in the form of running engines.
I doubt anyone here can define an engine vs a motor.
I think they somehow fixed the problem after a few thousand broken bones.😀
Thanks Sheldon 😁
What are they going to use for fuel when diesel and gasoline are banned?
Just responding to your picture, but it amazes me how dirty we were a hundred plus years ago. Can you imagine living in a town where everyone was burning coal in order to heat their homes? Now we are getting dirty in an effort to go green. Mine the rare earth and litter the land with inefficient wind and solar.
Highly likely the horse and wagon will make a comeback. So!!! Dig out those shares in that defunct buggy whip factory, its coming back too!.
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Burning coal was a messy business I hear.
My maternal grandparents heated with coal in the 'old days'.
And my grandmother told me about how, when she was a girl,
folks would put their coal ashes (cooled, I suppose) out on the
the snow & ice-covered streets of Philadelphia so the horses
would have better traction and footing & not slip & fall,
possibly breaking a leg.
It certainly all does sound quite messy, though.
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