<HTML>Jim,
Thanks for the elaboration on the actuation of the draft booster system. I can't wait for your book to be out! I am sure that it will greatly decrease the questions that I have for you.
I ordered a few books on the Tesla turbine a few days ago and am anxious about studing the design. What I know so far is that it operates on the principle of molecular/adhesion cohesion and the boundry layer(s) of the disks. Since water has a great amount of molecular cohesion/adhesion than steam it makes sense that water works better than steam. Another thing that I have read of is that there is a bit of vibration in the disks when spining good, this in effect reduces the ability of the fluid to "grab" the disks. I have seen pictures of Tesla tubrines where they riveted the disks toghether and they say that it "helped". Still as was stated, I have seen no independant thorough testing of this design, so I try to hold no opinion of it's operation.
What really urks me is that at [
my.execpc.com] ,which appears to be the home base for the Tesla fanatics. They have pictures of many turbines that have been made. Yet, they produce no NUMBERS to show what they discovered of its claimed "98% effeciency".
The only thing that I have heard of the turbines actually being made for and used for is the movement of water. Discflo.com is a maker of liquid pumps using a derivitive of the Tesla design.
Andy,
That is a brilliant idea you have about using an injector to propell condensed steam and water into a water turbine. No matter what type of turbine that type of system would use it should have some great advantages. The injector could be made to feed into a series of venturi tubes of inceasing size which could convert the high velocity flow into a low velocity flow and use a slower spinning turbine with greater effect.
I am going to order a book on injectors so that I can get a better idea of how well this would work.
Caleb Ramsby</HTML>