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I'm no expert, but I think it's fair to call a boiler failure an explosion. you're going to have a ton of steam pressure in a confined space. Not like a gasolin
by jfoutz 3y ago
I'm no expert, but I think it's fair to call a boiler failure an explosion. you're going to have a ton of steam pressure in a confined space. Not like a gasoline or dinamite explosion, but still a hell of a boom.
although maybe it did have a special emergency release valve that was sealed with a weaker metal or something so it couldn't get enough pressure to catastrophically fail.
I'm skeptical of this claim at face value "impossible for it to blow up" but people are smart. it's probably true in a bunch of contexts.
- clausecker 3y agoExcept Doble cars don't have a traditional boiler. They have a monotube boiler, which only holds a minuscule amount of water at any given time and thus has much less stored energy that could go boom.
- jfoutz 3y agooh! that's amazing! I don't know much about steam engines, but more today, Thank you.
- RajT88 3y agoThis is going to sound more snarky than I mean it but... You're not skeptical of the part where they're going close to 200mph on a beach?
- defrost 3y agoNot the beach part, they range from soft sand to hard pack tidal flats: MADMAX Race Team set fastest ever speed at Pendine sands in a 1200hp Porsche Turbo @ 210.33mph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendine_Sands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendine_Sands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgkXqedYr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgkXqedYr4 https://www.pendinesands.org/history/land-speed-records/ https://www.pendinesands.org/history/land-speed-records/ ... but I'm highly skeptical of 200 mph in a steamer in 1907.