[Land-speed] British steam car

John Burk joyseydevil at comcast.net
Fri Jul 31 13:25:22 MDT 2009


If the British team is not using propane to heat their boiler tubes they might
want to consider that design . A normal hot air balloon propane burner puts
out at least 8,000,000 BTUs . If the flame preheated a thin wall inconel steam
coil and the throttle pedal controlled the water flow into the boiler coil and
the system was 25% efficient that's  780+ hp with little lag time .


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