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Steam Powered Underwater Jet Engine

Posted by chrisd on from the seaquest-dsv-without-the-dolphin dept.

Bob Vila's Hammer writes "An Australian engineer, Alan Burns invented a very efficient underwater steam powered jet engine. "Steam that is produced from a petrol or gasoline fueled boiler emerges at high speed from a rearward-facing ring-shaped nozzle into a cone-shaped chamber. Shock waves created as the steam condenses are focused by the chamber to blast water out of the back. Besides powering watercraft pretty efficiently, it can also be used as an extremely robust pump. Pretty Cool."

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  1. Environmentalists by anakin876 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Some one is going to complain about thermal pollution and its effects. Something about injecting steam (or water that is almost as hot as steam) into a body of water just might piss them off......then again, practically anything that is useful does.