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Old 10-22-2010, 08:49 PM   #23 (permalink)
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The really old internal combustion engines had radiators made like fire-tube boilers, or else no radiator at all, just a water jacket intended to let the coolant boil off.

One thing to remember about trying to combine steam with ICE designs is that it takes ten or twelve square feet (~1 sq.m) of boiler area per HP, with apparatus designed for nothing else.
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