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Old 03-09-2006, 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by hightower99
Well You quote what water injection does now. Water injection is only a indirect power adder as of now but if you used it as a cooling system and got rid of the radiator like I said. You could take advantage of all the things you mention as well as increased pressure from the added mass! also a decrease in weight due to no radiators.
hmmm, for that to work I think you woudl need MASSIVE compression as if you do not the initial creation of super heated steam will actually prevent the on-going wave front of the combustino gasses.
I'll do the math with my BP petrochemicals friend tonight over a beer -- so no guarantees of accuracy
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