SpeedRacer 1 #1 January 11, 2003 Here's one for all you engineers out there: How to cool your beer using a jet engine! http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/ Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 0 #2 January 11, 2003 Wow. - Jim"Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phatcat 0 #3 January 11, 2003 I have GOT to make one for my apartment... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #4 January 11, 2003 This was on slashdot a while ago, and at the time it occured to me how silly it was. The jet engine has absolutely NOTHING to do with the actual cooling of the beer. The beer is cooled by rapidly allowing propane gas to blow out of a tank. The Liquid gas turning to - well, gas - requires heat, which it obtains from its imediate surroundings, in this case a cooler full of water and beer. Simple highschool physics. The only purpose of the jet engine is to burn off the escaping propane. It seems to me, that it'd be a whole lot more fun to do the same thing with a tank of nitrous oxide - aka laughing gas. Or helium, and have a whole room of people talking like Donald Duck. While I can certainly appriciate new ways to rapidly cool beer, using propane and a jet engine seems prohibitively expensive, complex, and dangerous. Replace the propane tank with one containing less dangerous and more fun gas, and I'm all there. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phatcat 0 #5 January 11, 2003 Quote less dangerous and more fun gas No - less dangerous = LESS fun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jimbo 0 #6 January 11, 2003 QuoteWhile I can certainly appriciate new ways to rapidly cool beer, using propane and a jet engine seems prohibitively expensive, complex, and dangerous. Replace the propane tank with one containing less dangerous and more fun gas, and I'm all there. I think you kind of missed the point. The guy cooled his beer, built a small jet engine, and most importantly he had FUN. I'm goint out on a limb here, but I don't think it was ever his intention to have this thing be efficient, or be in widespread use. - Jim"Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AirMail 0 #7 January 11, 2003 That's the type of beer cooler Tim on Home Improvement would build. Grunt. Patrick -- It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Postal Rodriguez, Muff 3342 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMan 7 #8 January 11, 2003 Nah, I think I understand just fine. Any self respecting geek considers efficiency in their designs. Like this guy, who built himself a linux based "auto-bar" - complete with touchscreen... now THAT is cool. http://www3.hmc.edu/~bgreer/barmonkey/ Silly, fun, practical, and effecient. Plus, it mixes your drinks. My point, was that the jet engine was COMPLETELY useless to the cooling of the beer. To say that he "cooled the beer with a jet engine" is entirely false. He cooled the beer with a tank of compressed gas. Now if he'd actually cooled it with a turbine - I'd be REALLY impressed. It wouldn't be that hard, drive a piston off the fan, attaching the piston to a compressor on a freon based refrigeration unit, and see how quick you can spin it, for example. Simply using a turbine to burn off extra gas, in my book, is not a cool hack. _Am__ You put the fun in "funnel" - craichead. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #9 January 11, 2003 Quote using propane and a jet engine seems prohibitively expensive, complex, and dangerous. Isn't that the whole point? You could just burn off the propane, but where's the fun in that? Not bad ideas about helium and NO2 though... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wingnut 0 #10 January 11, 2003 you could always use just the jet engine powered by the prpane, to power with beed air frm the engine a nice expansion turbine to rrapidly expand the air thus cooling it and use that air to cool the beer.....and then ya stiil could use the engine to power something lke a go cart to scoot ya around the football game parkinglot!!! ______________________________________ "i have no reader's digest version" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #11 January 11, 2003 I tink wingnut's onto something...You could use the jet-engine to power a go-cart, and have cold beer by the time you reach your destination.This is kind of like strapping a can of food (with a nail hole punched in it) to your tailpipe & driving somewhere & getting a hot lunch. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LouDiamond 1 #12 January 11, 2003 Quote you could always use just the jet engine powered by the prpane, to power with beed air frm the engine a nice expansion turbine to rrapidly expand the air thus cooling it and use that air to cool the beer.....and then ya stiil could use the engine to power something lke a go cart to scoot ya around the football game parkinglot!!! What a waste of all that energy. I say use it to set up a mobile wind tunnel like skymonkeyone described in the wingsuit forum. Now that would be both fun AND NIG NOGGEROUS!"It's just skydiving..additional drama is not required" Some people dream about flying, I live my dream SKYMONKEY PUBLISHING Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #13 January 11, 2003 Quote I say use it to set up a mobile wind tunnel like skymonkeyone described in the wingsuit forum. Now that would be both fun AND NIG NOGGEROUS!*** Not to forget the danger of grievous bodily harm! "It's not an extreme sport if you can't die of massive deceleration trauma." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,151 #14 January 11, 2003 QuoteNah, I think I understand just fine. Any self respecting geek considers efficiency in their designs. Like this guy, who built himself a linux based "auto-bar" - complete with touchscreen... now THAT is cool. http://www3.hmc.edu/~bgreer/barmonkey/ Silly, fun, practical, and effecient. Plus, it mixes your drinks. My point, was that the jet engine was COMPLETELY useless to the cooling of the beer. To say that he "cooled the beer with a jet engine" is entirely false. He cooled the beer with a tank of compressed gas. Now if he'd actually cooled it with a turbine - I'd be REALLY impressed. It wouldn't be that hard, drive a piston off the fan, attaching the piston to a compressor on a freon based refrigeration unit, and see how quick you can spin it, for example. Simply using a turbine to burn off extra gas, in my book, is not a cool hack. _Am Why are you being so irritable? That's my job.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phatcat 0 #15 January 12, 2003 I'm thinkin' you could cool the beer, power the wind tunnel, and rig up the exhaust to heat a grill for burgers and dogs and stuff. Mount this all on a winnie war wagon and you've got yourself a truly mobile party machine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
outofit 0 #16 January 12, 2003 damn, that dude is serious! It is better to be dead and cool than alive and uncool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #17 January 13, 2003 Was on Slashdot, and on REH42 before they folded. Touted as a beer cooler, true, but I think the nifty part is owning your own jet engine. The Green Mamba was for sale last year... "The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,151 #18 January 13, 2003 Here's an engine that runs on beer, chili and hard boiled eggs. www.iit.edu/~kallend/chili-n-beer.jpg... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #19 January 13, 2003 Joule Thompson cooling people, it was here last year...... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=165253;search_string=beer%20cooler;#165253 In essence the jet is just there to safely dispose of the depressurised gas....-------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiverbob 0 #20 January 13, 2003 rough on the back end of the jump suit, not to mention fusing shut your boc from the heat, lol!Who Dares Wins Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nacmacfeegle 0 #21 January 13, 2003 "Here's an engine that runs on beer, chili and hard boiled eggs." Ah at long last, now that is much more practical!-------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
