Electric gas turbine review

[wings]

also, improved flame with radiofrequency:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=z2IxAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.fripro.com/

[prometheus]

Thank you for the links. The videos are awesome. Just amazing isn't it, generating and directing that kind of heat with as little as 5 kw

[wings]

Thank you for the links. The videos are awesome. Just amazing isn't it, generating and directing that kind of heat with as little as 5 kw

side effect:

"the ions in gas exhibit cohesion much as in a liquid. Being cohesive, the ions have substance enough to exhibit "surface tension"-again, just as do ions and molecules in a liquid. As such, gaseous ions form a kind of invisible diaphragm which might logically be expected to couple with and to exert force upon adjacent air molecules. If such were, in fact, the case, a modulated highly ionized electrical current in a combustion zone might "beat" against adjacent air molecules, converting its electrical energy to audio energy, much like the physical behavior of a loudspeaker's solid diaphragm on the air around it."

http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/May1968/Flame_Amplification.htm

[prometheus]

great stuff, imagine a few 30 feet long flames at a rock concert, I wonder how it would sound (omnidirectional)

[mr_bojangles]

in that case, maybe look into stirling engines

apply the plasma torch as the heat sink, and use room temp as the cold sink

i say this because the stirling engine is super efficient, and it draws power from differences in temperature, the greater the difference in temp. , the more power you can achieve

the problem is that there tend not to be super differences in temp found in nature, and heating one side tends to take more energy than the engine will produce

however, 2000 celsius boasts quite a difference from room temperature