Home of the Old Fart's Club part 2

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Umbra last time light came up -- I had a question and got high and forgot-- Let me see if I remember right -- OK I know light can be bent ?-- So if it was bent around in a circle ?-- How long would it take to catch up to itself ?
 
U probably wouldn't like them -- This is the vegetarian kind !--
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Just saying !
 
I ran across my plans for My "Wet Heat" engine the other day -- Who know I have room for a grow and a little fab shop maybe I build it ?-- Simple little thing !-- Based on the Bliss Leavit Mark 7 steam torpedo power plant-- It was a closed system-- turn it on and it ran at constant speed until it hit it's target or ran out of fuel -- Fuel -air -and water were injected into a combustion pot and ignited -- The resulting steam pressure was used to turn the propeller -- cycle was repeated -- The rudder on a one ton test torpedo malfunctioned and the torpedo leaped over 40 feet out the water-- set a record for a torpedo to leap the highest out the water that stood for decades !--
Turn it from a closed system-- to an open system with controls and such --It got no real moving parts -- Use that steam to turn a jet impeller--
Strap it to a personal watercraft -- Find someone who ain't afraid to stand on it and see what it do ? -- I understand the mechanics but the needed computer control system is beyond me -- Maybe one day ?-- Such a craft should also be able to dive ? -- It's proven tech it just needs an upgrade ?
 
Find someone who ain't afraid to stand on it and see what it do ? -- I understand the mechanics but the needed computer control system is beyond me -- Maybe one day ?-- Such a craft should also be able to dive ? -- It's proven t

Hey Keef, if i didnt live so far away I'd test it for you. I say go for it bro, if you build it they will come.;)
 
That was to be my swan song -- I had planned that when I retired I would get me a little Shop and tinker away -- Build it just to please me !-- I grew up around a fab shop then made my living doing R&D for concrete machine companies as a young man -- Worked my way right out of a job -built them a machine then set thier shop up to mass produce it -- They didn't need me anymore -- I got an engineering bonus and a pink slip in the same envelope - - That's when I went back in the army and learned to scrub for surgery -- I swore I'd never build for anyone else except myself in the future !-- Then of course I fell and that dream died -- I never have built much since --but I kept it up in my mind -- I was quite satisfied in myself with Wet Heat -- The head injured mind ?-- U ever heard of something called "The Baghdad Battery" ?--If 2 dissimilar metals like steel and copper are immersed in a mild acid like fruit juice /wine or a slight saline solution like sea water a current flows between them -about 2-3 volts -low amp --
I sat up in the middle of the night one night long ago seeing in my mind the current flowing from a positive inner button to an outer negative ring around it -- Thousands of them covering the whole outer hull of the boat -- A boat that never needed fuel -- It's hull reacts to sea water providing electrical power !-- Did I ever tell U I dream big ?
 
That was to be my swan song -- I had planned that when I retired I would get me a little Shop and tinker away -- Build it just to please me !-- I grew up around a fab shop then made my living doing R&D for concrete machine companies as a young man -- Worked my way right out of a job -built them a machine then set thier shop up to mass produce it -- They didn't need me anymore -- I got an engineering bonus and a pink slip in the same envelope - - That's when I went back in the army and learned to scrub for surgery -- I swore I'd never build for anyone else except myself in the future !-- Then of course I fell and that dream died -- I never have built much since --but I kept it up in my mind -- I was quite satisfied in myself with Wet Heat -- The head injured mind ?-- U ever heard of something called "The Baghdad Battery" ?--If 2 dissimilar metals like steel and copper are immersed in a mild acid like fruit juice /wine or a slight saline solution like sea water a current flows between them -about 2-3 volts -low amp --
I sat up in the middle of the night one night long ago seeing in my mind the current flowing from a positive inner button to an outer negative ring around it -- Thousands of them covering the whole outer hull of the boat -- A boat that never needed fuel -- It's hull reacts to sea water providing electrical power !-- Did I ever tell U I dream big ?

Sounds like a very workable project. Giver !
 
I never thought you were giving me a hard time,,,,we cooler then a fan
 
My latest mind project is a work in progress -- The biggest thing in R&D is clearly identifying the problem then U can work on solving it -- I found a problem needs solving !-- Might be 50- 90 miles of wild beach between me and Mexico-- Not a house one on the Bay or island in that whole distance -- No roads -- No electric -- No fresh water -- U look around the world there lots of places where there is water but no drinking water -- Like back in the swamp -- U don't want to drink that !-- Anyway I can't do anything about roads but what about a "Utilities"-- Unit -- Standard size shipping containers that would use solar -- wind and maybe even Solar steam to make power and distill what's available into fresh drinking water -- It gets complicated !
 
Anyway I can't do anything about roads but what about a "Utilities"-- Unit -- Standard size shipping containers that would use solar -- wind and maybe even Solar steam to make power and distill what's available into fresh drinking water -- It gets complicated !

A splendid idea bro, absolutely no reason it wouldnt work. Brilliant mind there;)
 
Umbra last time light came up -- I had a question and got high and forgot-- Let me see if I remember right -- OK I know light can be bent ?-- So if it was bent around in a circle ?-- How long would it take to catch up to itself ?

Light is photons. Even if you could have a medium with decreasingly gradient index(which is the only way light could increase in speed), the photon cannot be in two places at once. Interesting thought experiment though.
 
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