Would my Alfa's V6 run on Jupiter?
Discussion
Just a bit of fun, not a serious question!
Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Forget the car, imagine an NA engine on a stand...
I guess the simple answer is no, Jupiter is a gas giant and as such the engine would fall to the centre and be generally crushed by pressure and temperature.
But expanding upon the premise, if Jupiter had a solid surface, it still wouldn't run unless you changed the fuel system to inject oxygen rather than fuel.
Moving on to a hypothetical planet. One that has a surface and atmosphere the same as earth but everything else being the same as jupiter it still wouldn't start due to the extreme cold.
Changing Hypo Planet's temp to the same as earths, it still wouldn't run would it? Give jupiter has 2.4 x the gravity of earth, atmospheric pressure would make a mess of it pretty quickly... It would be like strapping a hoofing great turbo or 2 to it.
And then there would be issues with the oil system, the weight of the reciprocating parts etc... (or is this where mass comes into play?)
Why else wouldn't it work or break?
Fugazi said:
Halmyre said:
Speak for yourself, piccolo-sphincter.
Just like the sausage thread last week, a bit of maths tells you everything you need to know about flatulence propulsion as a method of directing oneself across the infinite void....
So yeah, a top speed of mm's per hour, I doubt longer and/or bigger farts wouldn't do much to that speed.
But,
On the basis of 10 farts per day, you'd be doing 10mm per hour, 3.65m/s by the end of the year...
Can that be taken to it's logical conclusion - after 76 odd years you'd be doing 277.4m/s?
Or do other factors come into play?
Kinetic energy = 1/2mv^2
Which suggests, the faster you go, the more energy is required to get there?
Or will you just max out at 3m/s?
(In my defence I have been drinking tonight...)
John_S4x4 said:
http://jalopnik.com/a-nascar-team-is-building-the-...
Looks like an inline six ICE engine might get launched into space !
Quite an interesting article and concept actually
Hadn't seen that, thanks for the link.Looks like an inline six ICE engine might get launched into space !
Quite an interesting article and concept actually
You'd have thought that there would be a better design than a flat head but the thermal dynamic argument plus the maintenance requirements seem to mean it makes sense. To a degree. - If they're burning pure oxygen then they'll massively increase the engine's heat output - more oxygen = more fuel without the benefit of nitrogen to cool the escaping air. Then there's issues with pre detonation to consider.
Gandahar said:
Have you been drinking methane? Sorry, meths? Not sure why you chose Jupiter rather than a solid body such as Mars or Earth.
Taking Earth as an example, can Alfa engines work on earth? The easy answer is yes, but with lots of caveats.
Earth scientists have shown,over many years that an alfa engine to run reliably on Earth needs not a V6, nor even a V4 but the most simplistic V1 engine. As developed by the Germans in the early 1940's.
As I said, it wasn't a serious question and it related more to the operation of an NA ICE under extreme gravity.Taking Earth as an example, can Alfa engines work on earth? The easy answer is yes, but with lots of caveats.
Earth scientists have shown,over many years that an alfa engine to run reliably on Earth needs not a V6, nor even a V4 but the most simplistic V1 engine. As developed by the Germans in the early 1940's.
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