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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbVRXvrGJfI&pp=sAQA
In this video above, low pressure steam to turn a Tesla turbine is tested. And in the comment section, someone is proposed to use it in combination with a heat pump. Just curious to know how much feasible that will be
Watched some of your video's which were very entertaining, oh to be young again, lol, well done...
It's important to understand where Tesla was actually going with this technology and it's nothing like what most think which is generally the case. Tesla wanted a very small, lightweight, high power density turbine without all the complexity of conventional turbines ie the blading and tolerances. I used to design and build micro gas turbines 20 years ago not unlike that used in RC today and wrote software to do all the very complex calculations in basic on a Vic 20. It's unbelievably difficult just to get a gas turbine self sustaining let alone generating power due to the internal high velocity drag losses.
However as I implied most have no idea what Tesla was actually trying to do with this specific design. The problem Tesla was actually trying to solve is called "adhesion" whereby the high velocity medium moving in between the disks could transfer almost all it's momentum to the disks. This would produce a very high efficiency turbine needing only a few sections negating the need for multi-section, compound high/low pressure regions.
Think about that, adhesion, what does that mean?. It means the medium moving in between the disks should adhere or stick to the surface and not just drag it along producing turbulence and drag losses. The effect Tesla used is very obscure and I would be willing to bet nobody here has ever even heard of steam electricity or ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_effect.
In effect, the steam must be wet steam ie. including water droplets which charges the droplets to a high potential causing them to "adhere" to the metal disks which were grounded through the metal shaft connecting the disks and an Earth ground. The effect is similar to "spray charging" which is used to prevent paint overspray by forcing the paint to be attracted and "adhere" to the surface to be painted. Something so simple, an obscure effect nobody has heard of, a few design elements overlooked and a lack of understanding. This is why nobody to date has ever been able to replicate Tesla's claims regarding power density and efficiency.
A few obscure details which basically doubles the efficiency of the inferior Tesla turbines most are building today.
So what do you need to do?...
1)Use metal ie. conductive, disks connected to a metal shaft which is connected to ground though a shaft brush. This is a ground circuit.
2)Use a copper nozzle insulated from the steam supply which is also insulated from ground, high temp plastic lines.
3)The copper steam nozzle should be inside an insulated venturi which allows the steam to accelerate water droplets like a paint sprayer.
4)The water supply to the venturi must be insulated from ground as well through a batch mode or interrupted flow. Again this is a circuit.
5)Be careful because this is like nothing anyone here has probably ever seen and as my link implies the voltages can run into several hundred kV.
6)If you smell large amounts of ozone shut that mofo down because the HV is an ignition point for the H2 gas your probably producing.
For anyone who cares this is almost ancient technology dating back to the late 1800's, the waterfall effect, Armstrong effect, spray charging and so on...
Understand the only reason Tesla moved towards other mechanical inventions was because a bunch of knuckle draggers didn't like what he was doing with electricity. So he started integrating his electrical effects into common mechanical effects... pure genius.
Regards
AC
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