On 11-10-31 09:15 AM, vorl bek wrote:
A while back, somebody here did a rough calculation that, given the size of the outlet in the 1mw ecat, steam would have to be flying out of it at greater than the speed of sound if it were really putting out 1mw. Since there were two outlets from the look of it, that means the steam would move at half that, say 400mph. And since the ecat was only at half-power, that means that each pipe would have steam in it that was whizzing out at 200mph.
See Horace's recent post(s) on this. The second pipe was larger diameter than the
first, and area goes as the square of the diameter; the upshot, as I recall, is that your final number is still too high by a factor of several.
Even that seems a lot for the device; and wouldn't 200mph steam blow apart the radiators that Sterling Allen made a video of?
