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That's actually quite impressive and it ties into why I started the project. When I was a teenager I read a paper that talked about the drive used by Captain Ne
by todayiamme 12y ago
That's actually quite impressive and it ties into why I started the project. When I was a teenager I read a paper that talked about the drive used by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The magneto-hydrodynamic drive† basically tries to push seawater through a set of coils and, as you've said, it's very, very inefficient and currently impractical.
Reading that paper inspired me to look into this and I ended up trying to make a submersible with the limited budget I had. It was very frustrating and I just gave up and ended up trying to make linear actuators for touch sensing instead.
†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
http://www.skewsme.com/mhd.html#axzz3ACp7NENa http://www.skewsme.com/mhd.html#axzz3ACp7NENa
- netcraft 12y agoWasn't this also the caterpillar drive from "Hunt for Red October"?
- todayiamme 12y agoYup!
- apendleton 12y agoOnly in the movie. In the book it was an impeller.
- mrfusion 12y agoWow, I never a Magnetohydrodynamic_drive existed! Has there been any attempt to use it in air instead of water? I guess you'd just need a really high voltage?