And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
The motors powering that carrier are awesome! Just look at that wake!
The GW is powered by steam engines, same as Civil War ironclads. Any Union or Confederate engineman would have been familiar with the basic principles of operation.
The GW's engines are turbines instead of reciprocating pistons. Turbines phased in slowly, beginning around the early 20th century, but steam went in one pipe and out another, just like Watt engines. The fuel-fired boiler is replaced by a nuclear reactor, but it's still just "the thing that heats the water into steam". Boiler operators were usually a separate trade from enginemen anyway.
If you're an old steamship or steam railroad fan, the prime contractors in the nuclear industry will be familiar, like Babcock and Wilcox or General Electric. They're the backbone of the industry that actually make reactors and their support systems.
Back in the day I left SD about 3 hours after the Big E. Got to Subic via Guam and Okinawa. She showed up in a, to me, suspiciously fast time. I remember my rough card board box calculation showing about 48+ knots. Her course was unkown to me but distance plus some fudge....so... Only the nuke boats showed. The rest of the CBG got there 2 days later. I assume the attack boat was with her too.
Look at the ball........he's high!
ReplyDeleteNah, He's just getting set up for an over head, carrier break
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ReplyDeleteSurfing USA!!! or wake board at one of those Red Bull events
ReplyDeleteMax speed 30+ knots (cough)
ReplyDeleteFast enuff to ski behind.
DeleteFlux capacitor
ReplyDeleteThe GW is powered by steam engines, same as Civil War ironclads. Any Union or Confederate engineman would have been familiar with the basic principles of operation.
ReplyDeleteThe GW's engines are turbines instead of reciprocating pistons. Turbines phased in slowly, beginning around the early 20th century, but steam went in one pipe and out another, just like Watt engines. The fuel-fired boiler is replaced by a nuclear reactor, but it's still just "the thing that heats the water into steam". Boiler operators were usually a separate trade from enginemen anyway.
If you're an old steamship or steam railroad fan, the prime contractors in the nuclear industry will be familiar, like Babcock and Wilcox or General Electric. They're the backbone of the industry that actually make reactors and their support systems.
--TRX
Back in the day I left SD about 3 hours after the Big E.
ReplyDeleteGot to Subic via Guam and Okinawa.
She showed up in a, to me, suspiciously fast time.
I remember my rough card board box calculation showing about 48+ knots. Her course was unkown to me but distance plus some fudge....so...
Only the nuke boats showed. The rest of the CBG got there 2 days later. I assume the attack boat was with her too.
33kts...😆