Originally Posted by
dreaux
very strange. I was thinking about this today at work. About the potential energy of nitro and how to make it the most efficient. I was thinking more along the lines of something other then nitro methane. Maybe propane? acetylene? nitroglycerin's? how bout liquid oxygen and hydrogen i mean something really explosive, so you don't have to use as much.
I even thought of a way to make a pneumatic powered motor
Well, no trouble getting air into the chamber if your already using liquid oxygen!
and on the nitroglycerin front.... hey, it's still 'nitro'
in the meantime i'll keep trying to get accurate measurements of total energy released during combustion to decide if a peltier is even vaguely useful in terms of recovery (it would recover like 8% of the heat energy released at an absolute MAXIMUM, more like 3% in reality, assuming 80% energy from fuel in heat and only 3/8 of that heat recoverable with 10% efficiency).