FU Money + Meets the (Next Big) Thing

[rudy rouhana]

Are those TitaniumAlumina (Ti 1 Al 3 ) blades?  I believe they get stronger as
they are heated up.

-R

--- Wayne E Baisley <wbaisley@enspherics.com> wrote:
> > Modified HP: 350HP at the crank shaft, minumum.
> 
> My favorite, and not just because I worked for a (completely unrelated)
> division of Rockwell, is the hydrogen fuel turbopump for the Shuttle
> Main Engines.  It's considerably more expensive than a Jetta, and far
> less useful in commuting, but it's very impressive.
> 
> Not much larger than a car engine, it develops 69,040 horsepower. IIRC,
> that's done with 122 titanium turbine blades, each weighing about an
> ounce.  That's about 565 HP each.  And it goes from 0 to 37,000 RPM, and
> from a few degrees above absolute zero to around 600 degrees C in about
> a second.  The discharge pressure is enough for 36 miles of 'head', at
> least for liquid hydrogen.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wayne
> 
> Got me under pressure.
> 
> 
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