EskWIRED Still looking for a Steam Turbine?

 

This and the tesla pump function could be used to solve a number of
problems for a some projects I am considering.

 Check out the other clips on the subject at YouTube.

  Using one as a pump for HTF [(high temperature working fluid) Hot
Oil] could get around a bunch of costly problems.

  Then I might be able to make one work off saturated steam directly
off a trough solar collector.  ( Or a couple troughs feeding a third to
flash
to live steam?)

  What's really cool about this is the basic simplicity of the construction
of these devices.  Now if I can make one that can produce a useful
amount of work?  If I can find the sweet spot with current materials
that avoids the warping likely extracting power off the spinning disks.

Luck;
    Ken

 

construction

I'm using dial-up and an old Pentium 1 laptop and rarely even attempt to
watch videos online but I did manage to watch that one but didn't get much
out of it.  On some of those kinds of sites they have a step-by-step button
to push.  Is there one on You Tube?  I could not find it.  Perhaps it just
didn't load because it was working so hard on the video.

What I *did* get was that someone was using a Tesla discless turbine (I
think it was) to do something but I'm not sure quite what.  I have been
continuously searching for some kind of motor/engine/turbine that will run
from steam.  I've sort looked into air motors and the vane type looked
promising but someone told me it wouldn't work.  I have no idea how much air
pressure they usually use so it might be too much anyway.  There are also
piston-type air motors but I have not researched them yet.

I heard about some kind of Stirling engine at some kind of resort in Alaska
that was using a temperature differential of only about 160 degrees to power
the entire resort.  There supposedly was an article about it in either
Popular Mechanics or Popular Science but I could not find the article, just
something about geothermal power.

 
| I'm using dial-up and an old Pentium 1 laptop and rarely even attempt to
| watch videos online but I did manage to watch that one but didn't get much
| out of it.  On some of those kinds of sites they have a step-by-step button
| to push.  Is there one on You Tube?  I could not find it.  Perhaps it just
| didn't load because it was working so hard on the video.

If you have a program that can display a video FILE and includes the stepping
you want to do, then you could try this web site:  http://keepvid.com/
to download the YouTube videos and play them the "normal" way.

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  It would be hard to give you a good idea of the range of information
that is available from the YouTube videos, with you using a dial-up
connection.

This one was made with an acrylic housing so you can see the working
parts.  The steam powered one I posted a link to, would be much the
same, just made of aluminum or steel.




  As you will see they are very simple in construction, at least these
demonstration examples are.  To extract any significant power may
be another issue.  ( But the steam video matches EskWIRED's
request very closely)


  I have an e-mail info request out to a saw blade maker for data
and pricing on much larger disks.  I'm thinking 24" disks might make
a good match for the quality of steam I hope to be able to produce.
They make 120" saw blades, but I'll leave that for someone with an
extra large "micro-hydro" project.

Luck;
    Ken

 

I'm working on a vid2ascii converter .. getting the ANSII graphics right
has been a bitch.  But one day we in the bandwidth gheto will be able to
finally see that moving picture stuff.  

But kind of downgraded ..