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Old 04-25-2012, 09:01 PM   #144 (permalink)
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temperature describes the pressure of the steam, unless you get over 700c or something, which vago keeps ignoring.

and the combustion is for SURE over 700c.

the other thing vago keeps ignoring is the steam makes a variable compression ratio, leading to "perfect" compression, by definition.

And the whole "quench" thing is just malarkey. pretty hard to kill an internal combustion engine with water until it hydraulics.

and vargo continues to puzzle on what happens to combustion temps in the presence of water.

and, temperature might set the steam tables below 600c, but over it, we are back to ideal gasses, and at the transition "weird" things happen, which really points to the idea the whole issue is more of an issue of btus.
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