🚀 go-pugleaf

daestrom wrote:
 > "Lizard Blizzard" <NOSPAM@rsccd.org> wrote in message
 > news:antbnf$mt73$1@hades.csu.net...
 >
 >> John Woodgate wrote: I came across this URL today.  It's about
 >> making resistors from, well, read it and you'll see.  Go down to
 >> the design calculations where he shows how it's necessary to
 >> dissipate the heat built up.  Pretty cool.
 >>
 >> http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/bp/16/rwater.htm
 >>
 >>
 >
 >
 > Reminds me of shipyard work in the Navy.  When testing ship's service
 >  turbine generators, we ran 3-phase cable up to the pier and bolted
 > each phase to a separate steel plate suspended above a large tank of
 > salt-water. To load the generators down fully and "run 'em in", the
 > three plates were slowly lowered into the saltwater while a fire pump
 > kept the tank full. Able to 'load' a 2000kw generator for four hours
 > to complete the tests this way.
 >
 > daestrom

I'm curious as to what was happening.  Did the pump keep the tank full
because it was boiling off steam, or was the excess water overflowed for 
cooling purposes?

Thinking about it, it's a shame you couldn't just run the power to the 
local grid.  If it was 60 Hz, all you would have to do is synch up with 
the power, and feed the feeders.  Or else disconnect the feeder and just 
supply the local AC loads.

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