[757labs] Steam engineers?

[Trevor Lewis]

I've always wanted to make one, both a trebuchette version and a compressed
air/giant robot/nuclear powered version. I got a really nifty desktop
desktop trebuchette that I still need to put together. Picked it up from
http://www.em-labs.com/ when they were still on Kickstarter.

Anyway, yes, you would need a container of some sort. But it doesn't
necessarily need to be very big. It would be a good way to make a capacitor
of sorts.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Dave Johnson <proletroll at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was nearly derailed into a punkin chunker thread, which isn't a bad
> idea in itself.
>
> =DaveJ
>
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> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Steve Nelson <snelson at webapper.com>wrote:
>
>> Yeah, that's right, this is for my solar boiler. It needs to be steam to
>> use with the system I've designed so far.
>>
>> I guess air could be pressurized by heating it inside of a closed system.
>> But wouldn't I need a giant vessel of air to store up any serious amount of
>> energy?  I was never good at chemistry.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Adam Crosby <adam at uptill3.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think he's built a solar boiler, and is looking to use it?
>>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Trevor Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> > Does it have to be steam? A standard compressor will get over 100 PSI,
>>> > and the bigger ones can do 200+. You can generally find them pretty
>>> > cheap on craigslist.
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