In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:42:41 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Seriously, the billions of dollars will follow. They aren't needed to >start with. This isn't like wet CF, where the heat produced is flaky >and too low grade to do anything with. 101 degree dry steam has lousy >Carnot efficiency, but when the fuel is almost free, who cares? And it >can't be more than a minor engineering problem to get the steam >superheated to 200 C or or more (you're not pushing any of the materials >at that temperature) and the efficiency will be a lot better at that point. [snip] I suspect the temperature was just 101 degrees because there was no back pressure at the output. IOW the water simply boiled at 1 atm, then got a little hotter as it left the device.
In all probability, if you connected it to a steam engine/turbine, generating some back pressure, the temperature would rise automatically. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
