I know where the excess heat comes from ! Are all those *warm *regards in his blog ?
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com>wrote: > > > On 04/13/2011 03:46 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: > > Whoa! The D18 model has an electric generator and light, and they have > > a movie of it running! See: > > > > http://www.toysteam.net/wid18final.wmv > > > > You can hear the sound change as the RPMs change. The thing runs much > > smoother with fewer vibrations than the D6 model. The D2 will vibrate > > itself off a table at full speed. You can see the D15 doing that and > > making a wonderful racket: > > > > http://www.toysteam.net/wid15final.wmv > > > > Great stuff! > > > > Rossi should get a 4 kW steam engine for his next demo. > > Hey, if he does that, he can close the loop, and get rid of the external > power supply for the heater! > > > > I'll bet you can find one somewhere. > > > > Steam engines are nifty machines. These little ones make a lot of > > noise, but the big ones are quieter per kilowatt than an internal > > combustion engine. > > > > - Jed > > > >
