Re: H2 burner

On Jun 16, 12:10 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Spaceman wrote:
Williamknowsbest wrote:
C.F. Taylor, The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice.
Volumes I and II, M.I.T. Press, 1966 and 1968.
Reissued in paperback in 1977, and in 1985 as
Second Edition with minor modifications.

I read it in school I am pretty sure
I went to automotive school for 4 yrs.
and not once did they ever call it a heat engine

So you went to a crap shool.

NO surprise there ! You are the living evidence.

Graham

Really he says he read Taylor - but obviously doesn't understand it
based on what he says immediately after. An explosion turning a
crank a quarter turn has NOTHING to do with efficiecy. Put a gear
train on that crankshaft and you can turn a wheel as many times as you
like. That Driscoll cannot see that gear ratios have nothing at all
to do with thermal efficiency is obvious. Not so obvious is how to
teach him the realities of engines.

Even a crap school would impart some information. A free piston
engine is so simple to build, I gotta believe that if he's done all he
claims, he could build one from an old lanwmower or chain saw or
something - and hook up a junk turbo charger modified in a machine
shop in his spare time.

Lets say he's a good mechanic, but lacks the theory and math skills.
He should still be able to build a freaking free piston engine and
hook a fan up to it using junk parts - and play around with it until
he sees all the fan is doing is acting like a gear train - he hasn't
done even that. He hasn't done it because he's not even a mechanic -
that's the simplest answer.

Interesting that he says he's read Taylor - well lets go over it then
Driscoll. Set out the equations that compute the efficiency of your
engine - based on the worked examples in Taylor. Lets see it - then
compute the efficiency for me. HINT - it has nothing to do with how
many times the fan turns per free piston cycle.


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