Rich Anderson wrote:
So the incompressability of fluid helps. Cool. I was just thinking that a busted container of 12,000 psi diesel would suck ass a whole lot more than one fuel of air. I imagine that with 12,000 psi behind it, the fluid would do some major damage. Waterjet cutters that will cut plate steel like butter run at 20-50K psi. Sure that is concentrated, but a pinhole leak in direct injection diesel would still (I would guess) have no trouble making a light work of sheet metal. What would air do if it developed a leak?
What Scott was trying to say was ... there is a shit-ton more energy stored in compressed gases than compressed liquids (at the same volume and pressure). I think.
Personally I wonder where the technology for ultra-caps is at. THAT seems like a fan-damn-tastic way to store energy to me, compared with batteries and compressed gas.
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It didnt even blow the head off the foam shark in the testing.
