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Old 10-16-2007, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by PaulC View Post
Oh, can you imagine, even with a full array of safety enhancements, the occasional neighborhood boiler mishap? I can just see my next-door neighbor looking like some victim of a Warner Bros. cartoon explosion. Half of the idiots in my town can just barely handle the task of starting a gasoline engine.
Hmmm.

I think there'd probably be more danger from lugging the fuel around then from a steam pressure vessel explosion.

I wonder whether anybody has done any modern engineering studies of a steam plant/turbine/condenser system for a car. I feel a Google search making my fingers tingle.

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