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traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« on: March 11, 2022, 09:17:06 pm »
Due to the energy shortage, Biden has been assigned a new mod of transportation


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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2022, 09:33:41 pm »
Seems riding a horse might be easier, cheaper and more comfortable on those bumpy roads
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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2022, 10:37:04 pm »
Scale that up a bit and change to coal, and you could have a nice railroad locomotive!  What will they think of next??
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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2022, 10:42:10 pm »
Perfect for Biden, but not exactly new.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car

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« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2022, 10:54:30 pm »
Actually that would be fun as heck to build and mess with.

Steam is a powerful tool
Its biggest drawback is that it takes to long to fire up.
It would be fun to solve that problem...

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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2022, 11:04:13 pm »
Actually that would be fun as heck to build and mess with.

Steam is a powerful tool
Its biggest drawback is that it takes to long to fire up.
It would be fun to solve that problem...

Stoke the fire with liquid 02.  That will heat 'er up.
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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2022, 11:07:06 pm »
Stoke the fire with liquid 02.  That will heat 'er up.

LOL! yeah... Instant JATO.  :beer:

I was just kicked back thinking about a capillary system like a modern tankless water heater...

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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2022, 11:10:55 pm »
Or a steam powered jenny going to batteries...
Instant gratification from the stored power with the jenny recharging once the steam gets a boil on...



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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2022, 11:11:54 pm »
In other words,a steam-powered car. It's been done,and never got very popular because the results of accidents on passenger was never very pretty.
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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2022, 11:51:05 pm »
In other words,a steam-powered car. It's been done,and never got very popular because the results of accidents on passenger was never very pretty.
Boats and locomotives were bad enough if he boiler blew, now imagine sitting next to a 'steamer' in traffic....

But every year up in Crosby, ND...

And there are some huge steam tractors there.
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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2022, 11:56:01 pm »
Boats and locomotives were bad enough if he boiler blew, now imagine sitting next to a 'steamer' in traffic....

But every year up in Crosby, ND...

And there are some huge steam tractors there.

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Steam tractors aren't so dangerous because when they blow,they only kill the driver because there is no one else around.
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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #11 on: April 18, 2022, 12:04:56 am »
LOL! yeah... Instant JATO.  :beer:


Remember the internet videos of that, back in the 90's?
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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2022, 12:18:37 am »
@Smokin Joe

Steam tractors aren't so dangerous because when they blow,they only kill the driver because there is no one else around.
If they are plowing, maybe. If they are powering a threshing machine, there's a whole crew to scald and splatter...

That threshing bee has tractors that have been scrupulously checked to make sure the pop-offs work. The big Case is impressive, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fA7YHMRT-k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8cPY0oeKYU

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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2022, 12:55:34 am »
Remember the internet videos of that, back in the 90's?

No, but I remember the story of the guy strapping a JATO to the roof of an Impala...

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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2022, 01:19:37 am »
This guy invented a manure-powered car … in 1971

According to this 1971 article from Mother Earth News, British chicken farmer Harold Bate invented a car that runs on animal droppings 40 years ago. Why the hell are we still using oil? Bate invented a converter that reportedly recycles animal (or human) waste into methane gas — and he ginned it up from “odds […]

https://grist.org/green-cars/this-guy-invented-a-manure-powered-car-in-1971/



According to this 1971 article from Mother Earth News, British chicken farmer Harold Bate invented a car that runs on animal droppings 40 years ago. Why the hell are we still using oil?

Bate invented a converter that reportedly recycles animal (or human) waste into methane gas — and he ginned it up from “odds and ends at hand.” To be fair, using the converter is a pretty involved process, requiring 300 pounds of manure that has been fermented for up to a week. But on the flip side, Bate estimated it only cost him 3 cents (17 cents in 2011 money) for the equivalent of a gallon of gasoline.

    Once he had a guaranteed supply of methane, Harold next faced the problem of getting the high-pressure gas into his car’s engine in the exact amount required by the power plants under all operating conditions. His answer, of course, was the now-famous 6″ x 5″ carburetor attachment which he calls the Bate Auto Gas Converter.

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Re: traveling vehicle powered by water and wood
« Reply #15 on: April 18, 2022, 01:22:06 am »
No, but I remember the story of the guy strapping a JATO to the roof of an Impala...

 :silly:
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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2022, 01:31:12 am »
I remember that well. The guy doing the lighting was a university professor. I learned from him how to replace Freon R12 with a mix of R290 and R600a.

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« Reply #18 on: April 18, 2022, 02:11:51 am »
Lighting a charcoal grill with liquid oxygen

In 1995 George Goble experimented at Purdue university trying to find the fastest way to light a BBQ.

This video shows the fastest way, pouring 3 gallons of liquid oxygen over a grill with 60 pounds of coal and a lighted cigarette.

In the second part of the video this method is used on a 2.88$ discount grill. Most of it vaporizes(!) in the process.

A full report can be found here:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/J...

Watch a version with sound here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBLr_X...


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George H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner.

Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.

In 1981, he wired together the backplanes of two DEC VAX-11/780's and made the first multi-CPU Unix computer, preceding DEC's dual processor VAX-11/782. The operating system was based on the 4.2 BSD kernel, and the modifications thus eventually made it into the 4.3 BSD Unix release. At the beginning of the 4.3 BSD user manuals, Bill Joy wrote a special note of thanks to GHG for being courageous enough to put the multi-CPU kernel into a production environment before anyone else did. (However, the frequent crashes for a while inspired the writing of many humorous text files by the Purdue University Electrical Engineering student body, such as "The VAX had a Blowout", to be sung to the tune of London Bridge is Falling Down). The development of the Dual-CPU Unix system was the subject of Goble's Master's thesis.

Around this time, Goble also developed a networking protocol for Unix, referred to as pnet, which was used at Purdue at the time before being displaced by TCP/IP. Pnet allowed remote logins, and remote execution of commands, among other capabilities.

In the late 1980s, Goble started experimenting with refrigerants, due to increased danger and lower thermodynamic efficiency of the recently introduced R-134a compared to the older R-12 which was being phased out due to concerns about damage to the ozone layer, and the incompatibility of R-134a with the lubricating oil and other materials used in systems built for R-12. In 1987, he converted the beverage refrigerators in the Eta Kappa Nu lounge in the basement of the Purdue Electrical Engineering building to using a refrigerant of his own devising. This refrigerant is now recognized as R-406A by ASHRAE and is available commercially under the trade name AutoFrost. He later developed another refrigerant which is compatible with R134A lubricants, but which is superior in thermodynamic efficiency and lower system internal pressures called GHG-X8.

In 1996, Goble was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for preparing a barbecue for cooking in less than 5 seconds by the use of a smoldering cigarette, charcoal and LOX (liquid oxygen). This act attracted the attention of the West Lafayette, Indiana fire department, which warned him to never let them catch him in the possession of LOX near a barbecue fire ever again.

Goble is also noted for driving a vehicle with the Indiana license plate UNIX, and now also GHG-1.