On 08/10/2010 16:09, Joseph DeMartino wrote:   
   > On Oct 7, 11:26 pm, Jeffrey Kaplan  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Plus, his talk about how this might be used by solar generators is babble.    
   That is exactly how power plants work using fossil or nuclear fuels:  Burn the   
   fuel to create heat which boils water which creates steam which turns turbine   
   blades that generate electricity.<   
   >   
   > Or the screws of a ship or submarine.  I've won many a bar bet against   
   > guys who didn't believe that a modern supercarrier or balistic missle   
   > submarine is propelled by a steam engine that differs little in its   
   > basic design from the ones that powered 19th century locmotives or the   
   > *Titanic*.   
      
   Then you were stretching a point.  Modern steamships (nuclear powered)    
   use steam turbines to turn the propellors.  The Titanic and all bar a    
   handful of steam railway locomotives used reciprocating pistons, a very    
   different type of engine.   
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