On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:02:39 -0500, Alex Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>With the perfection of your freezing >process for higher power peroxide It isn't perfected. It is working. >and the moving on to you special catalyst it will >take a good deal of experimentation to get the cat pack just right. It'll take about as much experimentation as getting the silver cat pack just right did. A little more, since it's more configurable than stacked screens. We already have thrust out of an engine using the cermet catalyst; it just wasn't up to design standard. We aren't much surprised by the shortfall; we suspected we were short of catalyst in that engine. >I'm not sure if you use a reactor or build engines to test your brews Since we're going to use them in an engine, we test them in an engine. >but in either case the use of an >added component with the expectation of a changed plume due to an interaction would be >a way of checking your theories of what is going on inside the reaction device. And we would do this, why? We aren't scientists. We're engineers. The objective is not to learn about physical chemistry on a catalytic surface. The objective is to fly an SSTO. > One assumption that has been made often is that a milky exhaust is uncatalyzed >peroxide getting by the pack, has this been confirmed? Considering the complete lack of possible alternate explanations - it's an aerosol of water, peroxide, or both - it's been conformed as well as it needs to be. Which isn't very well - whatever it is, it goes away in a tiny fraction of a second, after which time the exhaust is completely clear, just like it's supposed to be. >Does it come out at the same >concentration as the upstream peroxide? Do you suggest we collect it and find out? No one is going to stick something into the exhaust stream! I think you misunderstand our emphasis in ERPS. We solve problems that need to be solved to get us where we're going. We don't put much time or energy into solving mysteries, explaining anomalies, or doing basic science. Research, yes. But it's engineering research. -R -- "...And the last thing I remember is asking, 'What could go wrong?'" _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
