Interesting steam engine

[Bill Hudson]

don't know if any one here has seen this or not.  I found it interesting.

http://www.greensteamengine.com/

Bill

[Eddy Matthews]

A fascinating idea Bill, but I cannot see if ever being used in a real environment. The flexible drive shaft is going to be very noisy as it whips around to drive the flywheel, and it's never going to withstand a heavy load as the cable would be trying to unwind itself and would probably fail....

I think it can best be described as an interesting concept...

[derekwarner_decoy]

Hi PD's.... I have enough trouble trying to  :boom    commission the bog standard :rant my FROG beautiful twin cylinder JMC3H steam engine & it has  :respect2 stationary pipe work & minimal other BITZ that rotate :idea:  :arrow:
This new fangled  :ohno rotating thing scares me   .... might be good for a steam powered helicopter  :?:   :| but I would not buy a ticket - Derek  :shock:

[Bill Hudson]

I feel I am on the edge of OT here but found it very interesting and think it would be fun to try to power a model boat with one.  

I have  heard about this engine before but had not seen  any thing in print (can we call stuff on the internet "in print?)  about it before. When I first heard about it it was being developed for third world use.  We  have a place about 30 miles from  us where they develop ways of surviving for Third World environments using found things.   Someting made from every day/ found stuff to do needed work like cooking, heating pumping water and generating elctricity.  Were it not for the fact it could also be used to power a boat I would guess this would be a little OT They were expirmenting with either this engine or one similar to it.  

About the flexable shaft drive.  That is nothing new. It has been around for a  very long time.  It has been used to drive gas pumps, sewing machines, juke boxes and many other things which require a universal joint/drive shaft.  The cable is layer braided, not twisted.  You can run it either direction.  

The engine supposedly needs very low pressure steqam to run it. They are talking bout waste water from and engine use in operating it.  

When I first heard about it one supposedly ran an automobile alternator using only the steam pressure from a stove top tea kettle.

if ypu find typos and misspelling.  I have suddenly developed a very strong numbness in both of my hands and find typing a pain. On top  of that my spellcheck has quit.  :rant
Bill