Yes, their are many ways to do a job but sometimes easy to loose sight of
the original point and get off on a tangent. KISS comes to mind.
Scaled topping cycle engines is cool but still like to see that
eclectic pump scaling analysis.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 3:34 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Craig Fink wrote:
...it might be reasonable at some point in the future to
start tackling the battery part and move to some other electricity
generators. My favorite is a gas generator turbo-electric generator...
If you've gone to the trouble of building a gas generator and a turbine,
there's no obvious reason to interpose a generator and a motor between it
and the pump -- either a direct shaft connection or a gearbox is a lot
simpler, and likely to be a rather lighter way to handle that much power.
Henry
