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Old 07-25-2014, 09:28 PM   #64 (permalink)
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I think you could use recycled hard drive platters in a Tesla turbine. The gaps for the read/write heads are too great, so thinner shims would tighten it up to keep laminar flow.

The turbo might work if it had some hydrophobic coating, but I don't know what would survive in those conditions.

Gold plating? Nuclear submarines have solved it.
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