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  1. dwbarlow

    80,000 Pound Dragster

    If it were built I would want to see AWESOME. Whistles on the flywheels that shriek at top RPM, un-muffled exhaust with bell shaped heads magnifying the sounds of the diesel, black smoke shooting in the air. And a young women in a bright pink fire suit stepping into the cab. When I walked...
  2. dwbarlow

    80,000 Pound Dragster

    I think a potential of twice the HP is needed. Peak HP is only used for 6 sec or so. After that event, any left over power would be allowed to dissipate, unless of course in a drag competition there were more heats. Again, it is a mental experiment. It wouldn't take much more than $75,000 to...
  3. dwbarlow

    Engineering picture database or map for brainstorming.

    I'm a software engineer. An open-source project could be proposed for a tool that associates keywords to an image/video database very easily. Call it the MacGyver Project. It would consist of two parts. One would be a SW tool with some artificial intelligence so that a set of key words might...
  4. dwbarlow

    80,000 Pound Dragster

    I broke down and did some calculations. I have attached the spread sheet (*.xls). You can check the math. I found out if you take a single steel disk with a radius of 2 feet and a width of 1 foot, spin it up to 5,000 RPM you get a potential of about 35,450 HP I also found out you need in...
  5. dwbarlow

    80,000 Pound Dragster

    I got out some old texts and did some calculations for this idea. I think they are correct but take a look and see if you agree with them
  6. dwbarlow

    80,000 Pound Dragster

    First off, this is not rocket propelled, and its not really engine powered. Second, on a semi frame you could put at leas 4 tandom drive axels in place with 16 drive wheels, giving an awesome traction capability. A triple clutch system could be deigned, one to get moving with lots of slip...
  7. dwbarlow

    80,000 Pound Dragster

    One day I was thinking about muscle cars and tractor pulls. What would you need to take a semi-tractor and turn it into a dragster? Obviously you would need a heck of a powerful engine of some kind to start with. Massaging the problem a little bit, I asked myself, "What would happen if you...
  8. dwbarlow

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY

    I though about this while sleeping. Personally, I was a little disappointed to come to the realization that on a large scale, this idea is not practical. But I also realized that if a small community with the right geography, could put it to use on a small scale on a fairly reasonable budget...
  9. dwbarlow

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY

    A system of systems and subsystems, with redundant capabilities. Existing USA electrical generation is already a system of subsystems and some redundancies exist. I've got that. Looking back, there showed have been a green line connecting storage tanks. I left out the networking capability...
  10. dwbarlow

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY

    Following is a graphic The topology of Southwest Wisconsin, the Mississippi River, and Red storage tanks. Theoretically, each tank represents a capacity of a cylinder, 1 mile in diameter, and 1 mile deep. From a practical point of view, each tank is actually a small damed up valley between...
  11. dwbarlow

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY

    I do enjoy the comments and misunderstandings. They help to clarify, in my minds eye, that which I am trying to describe so that others might see it as well, from a practical stand point. Let me summarize where I think we are: 1) Dam small environmentally insignificant valleys above the river...
  12. dwbarlow

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY

    If I did my math right, a 1 mile diameter storage tank, a mile high would have a volume of 462,431,198,085.12 cubic feet. A mile is not a significant measurement when talking about the total sq miles along major river systems in the USA. The figure, SlideRuleEra, provided shows many dams...
  13. dwbarlow

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY

    The existing dams on the Mississippi are for flood control and barge traffic. This idea does not even attempt to mess with that. What I suggest is create new dams at the mouths of existing 600 foot valleys that line the banks of the Mississippi river. Creating a network of reservoirs near the...
  14. dwbarlow

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY

    GENERATION OF UNLIMITED ELECTRICAL POWER WITHOUT USING HYDRO-CARBONS OR NUCLEAR ENERGY Sounds almost to good to be true, doesn't it? So how could it be done? I grew up in what is called the Coulée Region of Wisconsin where the Mississippi river flows south. Along the shores of Wisconsin...

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