The fastest vehicle on the planet in the year 1907 was powered by steam. Currently, steam vehicles are known for being slow, inefficient and generally rubbish, I don’t know if it’s true or not. However, that may not be the way it has to be. The British Steam Car Challenge team is making a new steam powered car, with four boilers and a very high tech chassis indeed, with the goal of breaking the 200mph (321kph) barrier that has stymied other attempts in the past. A technology with ‘legs’ is a technological achievement that would help to establish that steam.
The team interestingly cite raising the popularity of steam as a vehicle propulsion method once again, adding that almost any fuel can be used to generate steam, whether it’s mined, grown, or even captured from the sun. The steam car will be using LPG for their attempt and you can read more about it on the official site or on the Steam Car Club site page also. The BBRC Radio4 also has a radio program about this car. That’s a nice publicity! More power to them if that means that I can have my own steam car few years from now. Wow! How exciting! That would be the best creation of British gentlemen if never.
This steam-powered racer is appropriately named Inspiration, poised to break a 101-year-old speed record of127.659 mph that was set by a Stanley Steamer on the sands of Daytona Beach. The Inspiration's pedigree speaks for itself if the car's slick looks aren't enough to silence doubters. This British steam car is built by the team that created the twin-jet-engined ThrustSSC – the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier.
Water flows into a liquid-propane steam generator within this single-seater's carbon-fiber-and-aluminum body, where it's pressurized to 500 psi and superheated to 725 degrees Fahrenheit. From there it spins a two-stage Curtis turbine to more than 12,000 rpm that results to at least 300 horsepower that should be adequate to slingshot the Inspiration past 200 mph when, if development goes well, it reaches Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats next year
Early next year an all-British team, which is complete with lady driver, will make an attempt on a world land speed record that has remained steady for 100 years. Jesse Crosse reports their condition in facing up to the pressures. The team will decamp to the Verneuk Pan, a lake bed in South Africa's Northern Cape in the spring of next year with their equipments that will include the usual paraphernalia such as toolkits, laptop computers, timing gear, safety equipment and, of course, the car, with a sleek missile on wheels finished in British Racing Green.
A healthy sense of humor prevails despite err and pressures. The science behind the on-board computer systems is explained by a senior engineer, and then proved the point with a hefty and unscientific kick aimed at the main control unit. There was a move to a white board covered in scientific formulae. The car could reach a terminal velocity of 180mph if pushed from a cliff top and it was factually proven by the scribbles. The engineer confided that it is mathematically correct, however, the drivers aren't impressed for some reason.
The team has two drivers for the steam car. Burnett is one of the two drivers. He has raced dragsters and powerboats. Annette Getty is the other driver. She is the general manager of PDS, the family firm that manufactured the tubular steel chassis of the Inspiration. She has no previous experience but is making up for that by her campaign for a Mitsubishi Evo VIII in local rallies.
The fastest vehicle on the planet in the year 1907 was powered by steam. Currently, steam vehicles are known for being slow, inefficient and generally rubbish, I don’t know if it’s true or not. However, that may not be the way it has to be. The British Steam Car Challenge team is making a new steam powered car, with four boilers and a very high tech chassis indeed, with the goal of breaking the 200mph (321kph) barrier that has stymied other attempts in the past. A technology with ‘legs’ is a technological achievement that would help to establish that steam.
The team interestingly cite raising the popularity of steam as a vehicle propulsion method once again, adding that almost any fuel can be used to generate steam, whether it’s mined, grown, or even captured from the sun. The steam car will be using LPG for their attempt and you can read more about it on the official site or on the Steam Car Club site page also. The BBRC Radio4 also has a radio program about this car. That’s a nice publicity! More power to them if that means that I can have my own steam car few years from now. Wow! How exciting! That would be the best creation of British gentlemen if never.
This steam-powered racer is appropriately named Inspiration, poised to break a 101-year-old speed record of127.659 mph that was set by a Stanley Steamer on the sands of Daytona Beach. The Inspiration's pedigree speaks for itself if the car's slick looks aren't enough to silence doubters. This British steam car is built by the team that created the twin-jet-engined ThrustSSC – the first land vehicle to break the sound barrier.
Water flows into a liquid-propane steam generator within this single-seater's carbon-fiber-and-aluminum body, where it's pressurized to 500 psi and superheated to 725 degrees Fahrenheit. From there it spins a two-stage Curtis turbine to more than 12,000 rpm that results to at least 300 horsepower that should be adequate to slingshot the Inspiration past 200 mph when, if development goes well, it reaches Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats next year
Early next year an all-British team, which is complete with lady driver, will make an attempt on a world land speed record that has remained steady for 100 years. Jesse Crosse reports their condition in facing up to the pressures. The team will decamp to the Verneuk Pan, a lake bed in South Africa's Northern Cape in the spring of next year with their equipments that will include the usual paraphernalia such as toolkits, laptop computers, timing gear, safety equipment and, of course, the car, with a sleek missile on wheels finished in British Racing Green.
A healthy sense of humor prevails despite err and pressures. The science behind the on-board computer systems is explained by a senior engineer, and then proved the point with a hefty and unscientific kick aimed at the main control unit. There was a move to a white board covered in scientific formulae. The car could reach a terminal velocity of 180mph if pushed from a cliff top and it was factually proven by the scribbles. The engineer confided that it is mathematically correct, however, the drivers aren't impressed for some reason.
The team has two drivers for the steam car. Burnett is one of the two drivers. He has raced dragsters and powerboats. Annette Getty is the other driver. She is the general manager of PDS, the family firm that manufactured the tubular steel chassis of the Inspiration. She has no previous experience but is making up for that by her campaign for a Mitsubishi Evo VIII in local rallies.
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