Timeline for Could a hybrid electric steam plane be more efficient at altitude than at sea-level, and how to optimise it to frigid air?
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| Jun 12, 2019 at 8:28 | history | reopened |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 19:21 | history | edited | Tobe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 18:57 | history | edited | Tobe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 18:36 | history | closed |
GdD bogl Juan Jimenez David Richerby Gerry |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 18:21 | answer | added | Therac | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 17:53 | answer | added | Robert DiGiovanni | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 17:40 | answer | added | Peter Kämpf | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 15:21 | comment | added | user3528438 | The only reason to use steam is probably nuclear. And you are actually right, using electricity to take off and nuclear power to cruise is better than electricity only or nuclear only. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 15:07 | comment | added | user40476 | Rather using steam intake what about a steam exhaust! With an hydrogen high pressure tank, and a fuel cell (in our case the hydrogen) that will generate electricity to drive electrical motors. The efficiencies of the hydrogen cell and the electrical motor is much better than direct combustion of the hydrogen. The exhaust here is just vapor (steam if you prefer) | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 14:37 | answer | added | MikeB | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 14:07 | comment | added | Tobe | okay maybe diagrams later. Can we imagine the plane in the video. but with two added electric motors on the wings like a trimotor. The steam engine in the nose. The steam powered propellor is feathered till we are at altitude and the steam engine started, while the electric engines and propellors are stopped and feathered once at altitude. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 14:01 | comment | added | Tobe | The radiator is dumping heat into the duct just through conduction not combustion? ;) | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:59 | comment | added | Tobe | I've added that the steam engine is used once at altitude. Is that clearer? | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:58 | history | edited | Tobe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:58 | comment | added | GdD | A ramjet requires fuel @tobe. I suggest you add some diagrams or additional explanation of what you have in mind because at the moment it really isn't very clear. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:56 | comment | added | Tobe | might the radiator recover some of its drag by being placed in diverging converging duct, making a feeble subsonic ramjet. | |
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:55 | comment | added | GdD | So you have an electric engine to reach altitude, but then a different engine to cruise? I'm not sure what you are proposing, your question isn't clear. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:52 | history | asked | Tobe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |