Hi Joe, Like the coal powered trains, it's possible to build a coal powered
plane, but performance is going to be lacking. Oh NO, I'm a worse at
Poetry than a Writer. The Wright Brothers a hundred years ago, chose the
most promising fuel at the time, and build their own engine using it. ...
Flying to Orbit, that fuel is Hydrogen. The physics of the problem shows
where to look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse#/media/File:Specific-impulse-kk-20090105.png
Getting rid of the Carbon increases Performance radically. One Chemical
reaction instead of two that produces 3.4 times more Energy per Kilogram.
Almost the entire chart is unexplored territory for Hydrogen. Throwing a
dart at the Chart.
Did anybody bother to hang the Hydrogen_Specific_Impulse Chart?
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 8:15 PM Joe Bowen <joe.b.bowen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm just interested in flying to orbit, hydrogen or otherwise... I should
confess that when I was a kid, I tried to design myself a rocket of Estes
motors that would take me to orbit. I was too young to do the math
correctly but eventually realized I could never afford all of those E's.
Joe Bowen
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 9:08 PM Craig Fink <webegood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anybody interested?
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Craig Fink
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