[BC] External combustion

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:13 AM 1/17/2006, Phil Alexander wrote: -------

>A modern fossil fuel steam generating station will
>have an efficiency upward of 40%. Same is true for
>a large ship under steam power. Superheated steam,
>high pressure boilers with economizers and vacuum
>condensers do improve the Rankine cycle just a tad.

Sounds dangerous. I'll bet many steam engineers are suffering eternal 
combustion now.

Rich