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Coal Powered Motorcycle

04/25/2023 12:01 PM

How many miles per kg of coal is the question..? Talk about cheap fuel, doesn't get any cheaper than this I'll wager....

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04/25/2023 12:07 PM

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04/29/2023 8:15 PM

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Re: Coal Powered Motorcycle

04/26/2023 1:51 AM

Perfect wheels for Joe Manchin.

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Re: Coal Powered Motorcycle

04/26/2023 7:10 AM

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Re: Coal Powered Motorcycle

04/26/2023 7:13 AM

If only the steam-powered tea-stirring machine (© PWSlack, 1970) had taken off. The world would have been a different place...

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Re: Coal Powered Motorcycle

04/26/2023 9:48 AM

steam train tea kettle
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Re: Coal Powered Motorcycle

04/26/2023 11:18 AM

"Talk about cheap fuel, doesn't get any cheaper than this I'll wager...."

Talk about air pollution, doesn't get any dirtier than this I'll wager.

Are you suggesting coal as a replacement of gas?
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04/26/2023 12:00 PM

Nah, a steam powered vehicle uses too much water to be practical anymore....I might add that a good deal of your EV's are run on coal supplied electric...Clean is a relative term...

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04/26/2023 8:30 PM

My EV's??????????????
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04/27/2023 4:02 AM

Didn't any one ever make a steam engine which re-condensed the steam?

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04/27/2023 10:26 AM

Yes, but oddly enough it reduced the power...

Maybe a denser expander fluid would work...any suggestions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensing_steam_locomotive

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04/28/2023 6:45 AM

...and it increased the temperature of the water in the tank(s), which caused the boiler feedwater injectors to fail to operate; injectors best work cold.

Not the best idea.

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04/28/2023 6:47 AM

In marine steam engines, and most thermal power stations, it is everyday practice, of course.

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05/04/2023 8:01 PM

Yes, indeed Najeeb !!! ...

The massive and continuous loss of steam-cycle water was not overlooked by the ancients. The re-condensed water cycle was pioneered by a pioneering Scottish Mechanical Engineer by the name of James Watt in the 1760s

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Watt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_steam_engine

The Watt steam engine and Condenser pushed industrial England forward for the next 100 years

(But, as you well know ... the heat has to go somewhere ... !!)

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04/26/2023 12:41 PM

We use to fall asleep at the glow of coke ovens. And the smell of coal smoke from the furnace early in the morning.

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04/27/2023 10:18 PM

Luddites are alive and well.
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04/28/2023 12:01 PM

There's nothing wrong with simplicity in mechanical systems, you don't need a computer to run everything....

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04/28/2023 4:00 PM

It's the fuel that's the problem, not the device.
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04/28/2023 5:00 PM

China uses more coal than the entire rest of the world combined... and the US only uses about 6% of the total...

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/world-coal-consumption-1978-2020

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05/07/2023 1:35 AM

One Carrot per week,
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05/08/2023 10:15 PM

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