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To: csvset
The Arresting Gear Engines used on US NAVY aircraft carriers use ethylene glycol and utilize salt water cooling.

Sure, the abundance of available cooling fluid, seawater, makes sense and that's where the generic word "brine" came from. That needs heat exchangers and piping systems are made of fairly exotic/expensive MOC, mainly copper/nickel alloys, to resist corrosion.

Abundance of cooling fluid is required because of combat service that may rupture the equipment, loose the fluid, etc.

It's quickly fixed and filled with the seawater pump, et voila!

159 posted on 02/12/2011 12:32:06 PM PST by melancholy (Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist)
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To: melancholy

Correction, Geez!

loose ——> lose


163 posted on 02/12/2011 12:37:29 PM PST by melancholy (Papa Alinsky, Enslavement Specialist)
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